Communicating for Meaning: Words as Icons
There’s nothing like speaking another language to remind you that words are not universal in their meaning, but rather icons for what people believe they mean to them.
DetailsPutting Strategy into Action
Galvanizing people around a strategy requires repetition, reminders that make it hard to forget how today’s work contributes to the whole.
DetailsWhat is “Architecting Sustainable Communications Infrastructure?”
Sustainable communications infrastructure is like that old adage you hear about keeping a home organized: a place for everything and everything in its place.
DetailsLook at Trends, but Trust Your Gut
Looking outward for ideas and best practices is valuable, but so is the maturity to recognize when your own experience and instincts are already pointing you in the right direction.
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Don’t Die Until You’re Dead: Remembering Jerry
Jerry Witkovsky was my long-time creative partner and an amazing inspiration for learning, creating, and contributing across the lifespan.
DetailsDon’t get paralyzed by FOMO
I met with three student researchers at the Center on Media and Human Development at Northwestern University last week, about an intergenerational program in the works for a client. As the two researchers from the Americas (one North, one South) lamented that their grandparents were not so savvy with technology, the student from China chimed…
DetailsThe Episode Where I Take My Mom to the Wedding in New York
This is a story about the power of mindset and kindness. My 87-year-old mom is safely, successfully, back at home, after a four-day trip to and from St. Louis, through LaGuardia airport and onto a destination wedding at a beautiful farm in a small town in Connecticut. It was her first outing since she broke…
DetailsThe Three Words
It is that time? Measure success of the year ending and plan for goals for 2022. Of course if you may have started this much earlier. I’m in more of a “holy $&*@ how is the year over in two weeks?” kind of space. The Three Words Part of my annual process includes…
DetailsMoving on to a New Role
How many roles do you play in your life? A friend just came back from a business trip to Spain and Portugal obsessing over Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Or was it Bernardo Soares? Or maybe it was Alvaro de Campos? It was all of them…in one! It seems that Pessoa created work under some seventy-six…
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Halftime, Anytime
Halftimes are different than second acts. It’s not about reinvention but rather looking at what’s working, what to change, and motivating the whole team to move forward successfully. It’s about breathing for a minute and then going onto the next period on that ongoing trajectory of engaging and succeeding in life. Adrian and Deanna celebrate the adventure called life, as Adrian transitions from leading within an organization to running her own business. And, she shares her expert tips on leadership that she has garnered along the way!
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