Don’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…

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The 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…

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Moving 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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How Do You Feel About Networking?

I’m spending the next three days at the Heartland Fall Forum (we’re broadcasting live from there at noon!). It’s the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association/Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association trade show, with several hundred publishers, authors and independent booksellers…aka the people who are NOT banning books and who are off their phones (unless there’s a book…

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What’s Coming for AI

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” That quote has been attributed to Desmond Tutu, Wendell Philips and Thomas Jefferson, among others. (Thanks to Anna Berkes for trying to get to the bottom of who said it first—it looks like it wasn’t any of them.)   Whoever said it, it’s on my mind after reading…

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