Everything I Learned in Business, I Learned From My Kids
Everything I learned in Business I Learned from My Kids
There is so much less to this than you think. My son reminds me that it is the simple moments of engagement that mean the most. The moments when we listen – really listen – and set aside our own bias and experience are the times when we grow and improve.
-Matt Stryker
Program Director, Worldwide Performance Marketing Leader, IBM Commerce
Do things with intention. My boys, ages 2 and 4, always remind me to do things with intention. They verbally remind me that it should be my intention to play with them and have fun.
-Jason Eng
Digital Marketing Community Leader
IBM, CHQ, Marketing
Learn to see things through others’ eyes. Trying to put myself in my son’s place is a great exercise in empathy as well as in considering things from a new perspective.
-Daniel Davis
Sr. Marketing Manager, Digital Content & Editorial
IBM Commerce, Social and Mobile
Not everyone thinks exactly like you do. One of the best things my kids helped me learn was that not everyone thinks like I do about life, work, everything.
-Brian Williams
Partner, Strategy and Analytics
IBM Global Business Services
Slow down, pay attention & really listen. Now that my son is starting to articulate his thoughts, he doesn’t always say the most ‘understandable’ things.
-Seth Marquart
Marketing Engagement Leader/Event Specialist
IBM Commerce, Social and Mobile
Believe that you can do great things. When my son was in elementary school, his teacher asked the kids about Thanksgiving in their respective homes. Sam said,
“Each year my dad goes up on the roof of our house and gets a turkey and then we eat it.” Children sometimes think of parents as superheros, but there’s truth here.
Paul Hoffman
Commerce Strategist, Always On Newsroom
IBM Commerce, Social and Mobile
Same house, same parents, completely different kids.
My wife and I raised two daughters. Being just over two years apart in age, they grew up in the same house, environment, with the same parents, even ate the same
food. Despite everything being the same, they are complete opposites. From the day they were born, they were different.
-Peter Sharkey
VP, Services Excellence, Global
IBM Global Technology Services
Comfort zones are self-imposed prisons. And we must break out. Each of my five kids has taken on a challenge so outside their comfort zone, I was scared for them. And in each case, they rose above their fears (and mine).
-Mark Babbitt
President, SwitchandShift.com
CEO and Founder, YouTern
Don’t overthink mistakes & don’t forget to celebrate the wins. My three daughters always ask simple questions like
“why?” and are quick to say “it will be okay.”
-Brian Fanzo
Chief Digital Strategist and Change Evangelist
Children, whether they’re ours or those of friends or relatives or complete strangers, have valuable lessons to teach us about the way we go about our personal
and professional lives
There is so much less to this than you think. My son reminds me that it is the simple moments of engagement that mean the most. The moments when we listen – really listen – and set aside our own bias and experience are the times when we grow and improve.
-Matt Stryker
Program Director, Worldwide Performance Marketing Leader, IBM Commerce
Do things with intention. My boys, ages 2 and 4, always remind me to do things with intention. They verbally remind me that it should be my intention to play with them and have fun.
-Jason Eng
Digital Marketing Community Leader
IBM, CHQ, Marketing
Learn to see things through others’ eyes. Trying to put myself in my son’s place is a great exercise in empathy as well as in considering things from a new perspective.
-Daniel Davis
Sr. Marketing Manager, Digital Content & Editorial
IBM Commerce, Social and Mobile
Not everyone thinks exactly like you do. One of the best things my kids helped me learn was that not everyone thinks like I do about life, work, everything.
-Brian Williams
Partner, Strategy and Analytics
IBM Global Business Services
Slow down, pay attention & really listen. Now that my son is starting to articulate his thoughts, he doesn’t always say the most ‘understandable’ things.
-Seth Marquart
Marketing Engagement Leader/Event Specialist
IBM Commerce, Social and Mobile
Believe that you can do great things. When my son was in elementary school, his teacher asked the kids about Thanksgiving in their respective homes. Sam said,
“Each year my dad goes up on the roof of our house and gets a turkey and then we eat it.” Children sometimes think of parents as superheros, but there’s truth here.
Paul Hoffman
Commerce Strategist, Always On Newsroom
IBM Commerce, Social and Mobile
Same house, same parents, completely different kids.
My wife and I raised two daughters. Being just over two years apart in age, they grew up in the same house, environment, with the same parents, even ate the same
food. Despite everything being the same, they are complete opposites. From the day they were born, they were different.
-Peter Sharkey
VP, Services Excellence, Global
IBM Global Technology Services
Comfort zones are self-imposed prisons. And we must break out. Each of my five kids has taken on a challenge so outside their comfort zone, I was scared for them. And in each case, they rose above their fears (and mine).
-Mark Babbitt
President, SwitchandShift.com
CEO and Founder, YouTern
Don’t overthink mistakes & don’t forget to celebrate the wins. My three daughters always ask simple questions like
“why?” and are quick to say “it will be okay.”
-Brian Fanzo
Chief Digital Strategist and Change Evangelist
Children, whether they’re ours or those of friends or relatives or complete strangers, have valuable lessons to teach us about the way we go about our personal
and professional lives