Having covered the crazy campaign of 2016 and seeing a lot of young women showing up, I just had this ah-ha moment. I went to my bosses and said, ‘Guys, I want to make women my priority.’
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
What I try to keep an eye on is I don’t work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
There are lots of comic bosses and fathers in sitcoms, but the comic landlord remains rare.
Even the most high-maintenance boss isn’t going to sit and watch you the whole time, making sure you’re paying attention to them, whereas with a child, it’s like, ‘Wait, what? You’re not watching me right now? Really? Then I’m going to go spill this milk.’ Even bosses from hell don’t behave like that!
I’ve been very clear that childcare is a parents’ issue. Men need to be confident that they can have a conversation with their bosses about the need to work flexibly, as I hope women are.
What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.
At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.
I don’t want to be one of those bosses… taking credit for phenomena that are out of my control.
