Trust doesn’t come first
I began teaching at a North Carolina university in the fall of 2021 and learned immediately the last chapter we studied needed to be the first. Ethics and professionalism are not where to wrap up the conversation …
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Write like a boss
How many of you have gotten an email and been unable to wade through all the blather to get to the point? You know you have been on the giving and the receiving end of this scenario. Many …
SIFTing through the fake to find the facts
The entirety of the internet is such that if you tried to read it all, it would take you 57,000 years, even if you read for 24 hours a day. The amount of “information” available to us …
Read the room. Pitch.
Yes, you have a job to do – get media exposure for your client. Yet you cannot ignore the climate into which you are sending those pitches. If you do, you do a disservice to your …
Talk is not cheap.
Whether you’re sitting in a chaise lounge, a plastic beach chair or hiding in your new makeshift home “office,” chances are you are acutely aware we are at a pivotal point as a society, and perhaps …
Don’t cut your own hair!
COVID isolation rules aside – you wouldn’t normally try to cut your own hair, would you? You might own a trimmer or some fancy styling tools. You may even be really adventurous and have tried a “color …
Leading through a crisis: Do you have a plan?
COVID-19 may have seemed like a term found in business newspapers announcing a company merger. Coronavirus was jokingly referred to as a beer-related illness. An event like a worldwide pandemic always seems far-fetched until it happens. As the …
Is the annual report dead?
Smart phones, Twitter, Instagram and the never-ending wave of 24-hour communication coupled with people’s busy lives can make holding paper seem positively archaic. Do people still read annual reports? What is the point when everything is so “digital,” so immediate? Let …
Deadlines: blessing or curse?
“Deadline” is an ominous sending word on its face. In fact, after some cursory research, we found the term may be connected with the American Civil War. Soldiers used “dead line” to reference an physical line or boundary prisoners …
Exhaustion is not a status symbol
As we close the final year of the decade, it’s an appropriate time to reflect on what we have accomplished and set new goals for 2020 and beyond. Have you considered adding “work life balance” to your list? We all …