“How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.” – G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World Happy Mother’s Day! As Chesterton observed back in 1910, motherhood is not only hard work and rewarding work; it is also vastly important work. So, if we are looking for ways to make our businesses more successful, what better place to turn for inspiration than to our own mothers?
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