Ep. 296 | Should you Manage your Family Like a Business?
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Jeremy and Jeff discuss raising your kids so that one day they were in charge of all you had.
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| 0:00.0 | And so they discover that these three questions really forces conversations both directions. |
| 0:09.5 | What's up, guys? Welcome to Five Minute Fatherhood. So Jeff and I love to look at people that have taken ideas from especially the workplace and have applied into the family. And I know for some |
| 0:21.7 | people, that feels a little weird, but the reason why that makes a lot of sense is because the family |
| 0:26.7 | is an organization. It has to produce a lot of things. And so it's important to begin to treat the |
| 0:33.4 | family more like you would think to treat an organization. And so one of the, one of the, |
| 0:39.0 | the management philosophies that has just erupted in the last few decades is agile. And a guy |
| 0:44.6 | named Bruce Filer just wrote a article for the Harvard Business Review. And the article is entitled |
| 0:50.2 | the Agile Family Meeting. And if you guys have been following us, you know that we really are |
| 0:56.3 | interested in ways of seeing families have good, productive weekly meetings. And so let me read, |
| 1:04.5 | I'm curious Jeff, what you think about this. So he said, at a moment when many families around |
| 1:08.0 | the world are confined to home, climbing the walls, |
| 1:15.1 | and are searching desperately for fresh techniques for managing their household chaos, |
| 1:20.3 | one proven solution that my family, along with many others, uses, comes from an unlikely source, |
| 1:21.2 | agile development. |
| 1:27.1 | And basically what this does is you ask a series of questions on a weekly basis. Number one, what worked well in our family |
| 1:30.0 | this week? Number two, what didn't work well in our family this week? And number three, |
| 1:35.9 | what will we agree to work on this week? And these are questions that our family for years |
| 1:42.1 | has been asking at our family meeting. You know, |
| 1:45.5 | what's the one thing we want to work on? What do we want to improve? What is working? What isn't |
| 1:49.1 | working? And this basic idea that happens within agile development, this kind of really started |
| 1:55.0 | in trying to get software developers that were only essentially getting communication downstream from kind of the |
| 2:04.9 | top of the corporate ladder down to the developers. Well, it came back up with things that |
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