Parenting - If You Can't Step Away for a Week or Two You Will Be Fine

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It's so rare to find a situation where even if the head person can't step away from some small amount of time to go do something. As a parent I was one of those my very first and would go check on whether or not he was breathing every night for like several times a night. Galat: You just never know what's going to happen and when you're going to need to step away when you know well it's going to be closed a random day or someone's going toBe sick or something else is going to happen.

Allison McMillan, VP of Engineering at Quota Path, joins us to talk about the transformation engineering leaders go through when they become parents and the lessons we can take parenting to our day-to-day as managers. From communication to rewards vs. consequences to dealing with other humans and their unique challenges.

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