3 Things He Learned While the Plane Crashed
By Tim Berry
This is just five minutes. Just click and listen. There’s nothing I could add to it. Or just click here to view the original, on TED.com Read More »
Torn: True Stories on Kids, Career, and Conflict of Motherhood
By Tim Berry
Today is the first day of distribution for Samatha Walraven’s book Torn: True Stories of Kids, Career, and the Conflict of Modern Motherhood. I got an advance copy and it’s a good read: for working moms, of course, but also for working dads, and everybody else who cares about understanding some of the people they... Read More »
Time, Not Money, is the Key To Happiness
By Tim Berry
Evidence gathers. I posted research agrees: time is the scarcest resource more than a year ago. Then this week I found Research Finds Time As A Means to Happiness in a Stanford business school publication. This one is about a new study with similar findings, plus a summary of several others. New research takes a... Read More »
Family Business Succession 4 Years Later: The Rest of the Story
By Tim Berry
There I was, minding my own business, watching my twitter flow, contemplating my next blog post, when what should appear in my twitter but … well, you can see it here to the right, in the Tweetdeck version: mommyceo is Sabrina Parsons, my second of five grown-up children, who has been running Palo Alto Software... Read More »
What Does a Life Well Lived Look Like to You?
By Tim Berry
What do you think of this (emphasis is mine)? Flextime, dress-down Fridays and paternity leave mask the core issue: certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged, on a day-to-day basis, with a young family. Reality is people working long hard hours at jobs they hate to buy things they don’t... Read More »
It’s Easier to Build a Business Than Find a New Spouse.
By Tim Berry
Here’s a thought: a healthy relationship makes both of the people better for it. Both people win, or neither one wins. Are you better, and better off, because of your spouse? Is your spouse better, or better off, because of you? And then there’s business, life, and relationships. Is your relationship better off for your... Read More »
True Story: Home is Where Business is Good
By Tim Berry
We were in our early twenties, and he was in his late forties. We knew him as the quintessential Oregon lover, born and raised in Oregon, running a lumber business, loving the advantages and ignoring the disadvantages of living in Eugene. He was smart, successful, and very easy to like. We both liked and admired... Read More »
This New Year’s Resolution is About Time
By Tim Berry
On this last working day of this year, staring 2011 in the face, I’m reminded: Time is the scarcest resource. Don’t waste it. In the 1987 Wall Street movie, as they board his private jet, Gordon Gekko tells Bud Fox: Real wealth is not having to waste time. Meanwhile, somebody suggested to me that we... Read More »
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