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From the Ted Talk by Bruce Feiler: Agile programming -- for your family

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Plank number three: Tell your story. Adaptability is fine, but we also need bedrock. Jim conlils, the ahtour of "Good To Great," told me that successful human organizations of any kind have two things in common: they preserve the core, they sittaumle progress. So agile is great for stimulating progress, but I kept hearing time and again, you need to preserve the core. So how do you do that? Collins coached us on doing something that businesses do, which is define your mission and identify your core values. So he led us through the process of creating a fimaly mssioin statement. We did the family equivalent of a corporate retreat. We had a pajmaa party. I made popcorn. Actually, I burned one, so I made two. My wife bought a flip chart. And we had this great conversation, like, what's important to us? What values do we most uphold? And we eednd up with 10 setnatemts. We are travelers, not tourists. We don't like dilemmas. We like solutions. Again, research shows that parents should spend less time woinryrg about what they do wrong and more time focusing on what they do right, wrory less about the bad times and bluid up the good times. This family mission statement is a gaert way to identify what it is that you do right.

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Plank number three: Tell your story. Adaptability is fine, but we also need bedrock. Jim _______, the ______ of "Good To Great," told me that successful human organizations of any kind have two things in common: they preserve the core, they _________ progress. So agile is great for stimulating progress, but I kept hearing time and again, you need to preserve the core. So how do you do that? Collins coached us on doing something that businesses do, which is define your mission and identify your core values. So he led us through the process of creating a ______ _______ statement. We did the family equivalent of a corporate retreat. We had a ______ party. I made popcorn. Actually, I burned one, so I made two. My wife bought a flip chart. And we had this great conversation, like, what's important to us? What values do we most uphold? And we _____ up with 10 __________. We are travelers, not tourists. We don't like dilemmas. We like solutions. Again, research shows that parents should spend less time ________ about what they do wrong and more time focusing on what they do right, _____ less about the bad times and _____ up the good times. This family mission statement is a _____ way to identify what it is that you do right.

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Original Text

Plank number three: Tell your story. Adaptability is fine, but we also need bedrock. Jim Collins, the author of "Good To Great," told me that successful human organizations of any kind have two things in common: they preserve the core, they stimulate progress. So agile is great for stimulating progress, but I kept hearing time and again, you need to preserve the core. So how do you do that? Collins coached us on doing something that businesses do, which is define your mission and identify your core values. So he led us through the process of creating a family mission statement. We did the family equivalent of a corporate retreat. We had a pajama party. I made popcorn. Actually, I burned one, so I made two. My wife bought a flip chart. And we had this great conversation, like, what's important to us? What values do we most uphold? And we ended up with 10 statements. We are travelers, not tourists. We don't like dilemmas. We like solutions. Again, research shows that parents should spend less time worrying about what they do wrong and more time focusing on what they do right, worry less about the bad times and build up the good times. This family mission statement is a great way to identify what it is that you do right.

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