Families
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I spent the last few years trying to answer that question, traveling around, meeting families, talking to scholars, experts ranging from elite peace negotiators to Warren Buffett's bankers to the Green Berets.
I was trying to figure out, what do happy
families
do right and what can I learn from them to make my family happier?
So what is Agile, and why can it help with something that seems so different, like
families?
Inevitably, people began taking some of these techniques and applying it to their
families.
So let's take one problem that
families
face, crazy mornings, and talk about how agile can help.
I've taken some ideas from the Starrs and from many other
families
I met.
I was a teenager when I first read "Anna Karenina" and its famous opening sentence, "All happy
families
are alike.
Of course all happy
families
aren't alike."
Recent scholarship has allowed us, for the first time, to identify the building blocks that successful
families
have.
We now have in the violent Horn of Africa pastoralists planning their grazing to mimic nature and openly saying it is the only hope they have of saving their
families
and saving their culture.
And low-income
families
generally don't have those choices.
But nobody helped them, because they were so focused on taking care of themselves and their
families.
Many North Koreans are separated from their families, and when they arrive in a new country, they start with little or no money.
In India now there's a campaign which persuades young brides not to marry into
families
that don't have a toilet.
It was about 35
families
that lived on this farm, and everything that we produced on this farm, we consumed.
That was when I realized that this sort of benign neglect was a real problem, and it had real consequences, not just for Alex and her love life but for the careers and the
families
and the futures of twentysomethings everywhere.
So we have it in our direct self-interest, not to mention the fact that most men that I know have women and girls that we care deeply about, in our
families
and our friendship circles and every other way.
One of the
families
I interviewed, Tom and Karen Robards, were taken aback when, as young and successful New Yorkers, their first child was diagnosed with Down syndrome.
One of the
families
I interviewed for this project was the family of Dylan Klebold, who was one of the perpetrators of the Columbine massacre.
I thought it was surprising how all of these
families
had all of these children with all of these problems, problems that they mostly would have done anything to avoid, and that they had all found so much meaning in that experience of parenting.
And there are people who think that
families
like mine shouldn't be allowed to exist.
In 2010, for example, there were 831, all over Australia, and the Torres Strait Islands, all states, working to improve the houses where they and their
families
live, and that's an important thing.
We went in with no grand plan, no grand promises of a great program, just the offer to build two toilets for two
families.
Willful blindness exists on epic scales like those, and it also exists on very small scales, in people's families, in people's homes and communities, and particularly in organizations and institutions.
The rooftop of my apartment building, a place where 96
families
call home.
We can take them to our families, to our schools, even to our governments.
The original designer of the memorial, Michael Arad, had this image in his mind of all the names appearing undifferentiated, almost random, really a poetic reflection on top of the nature of a terrorism event itself, but it was a huge challenge for the families, for the foundation, certainly for the first responders, and there was a negotiation that went forth and a solution was found to actually create not an order in terms of chronology, or in terms of alphabetical, but through what's called meaningful adjacency.
So this is an image of the actual algorithm itself with the names scrambled for privacy, but you can see that these blocks of color are actually the four different flights, the two different towers, the first responders, and you can actually see within that different floors, and then the green lines are the interpersonal connections that were requested by the
families
themselves.
Our friends, our
families
and our colleagues can break our security even when we do the right things.
It ritualizes the impact of death on
families
and communities.
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