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…
DetailsThis 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…
DetailsIt 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…
DetailsHow 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…
DetailsHalftimes 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!
DetailsIndependent booksellers, publishers and writers converge for an amazing 3 days all about books! Join me, author Erica Witsell, BQB Publishing/WriteLife and other “bookies” live as we talk about the business of writing, selling and distributing books! Watch the Replay Now! And, apologies in advance…We were broadcasting live from the show in St. Louis,…
DetailsWho Has the Right Answer? Of Course It’s YOU! It felt like a Diane Keaton or Meg Ryan movie. Maybe Jane Fonda? The siblings flock home around a parent in crisis, with all the parallels you can imagine in terms of the adult child “archetypes” that show up in the movies. There’s “the doctor”…
DetailsI’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…
Details“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…
DetailsHow Entrepreneurship Can Revitalize Local Communities. Suntae Kim, Researcher, and Cecilia Mowatt, lawyer and business developer, look at how small businesses scaling deep and local can drive economic growth.
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