Business and family affairs

Matthew Lynn

Can being a good parent really enhance your performance in the workplace? UK trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt thinks so

Picture a bunch of tiny people bouncing around hysterically, taking everything off the shelves and chucking stuff around the room like elves on amphetamines. Or someone lying face down on the floor crying miserably because they didn't get their own way. Or someone doing the same thing over and over again until everyone else in the room starts tearing their hair out? Sound like your office? Perhaps. But, in truth, it sounds much more like your house on a Sunday morning - or at least my house. Yet maybe the two organisations, your office and your home, are not so different. And maybe learn...