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Are We One Thing? Or Many?

October 12, 2023
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Hi! I was reading an HBR piece this morning about portfolio careers and the idea of creating a drawing with all of the different ways you’ve added value during your career to be pretty interesting. I took a bit of a sabbatical over the summer after 2022 was a year of all hell breaking loose for me […]

A few thoughts

I’m not sure whether I am ready to declare the aftereffects of The Great Recession over yet. There are still too many people that found themselves with their lives destroyed through no fault of their own for me to feel comfortable saying anything is good again. On the other hand, as we move to a […]

The quickest way to learn what works and what doesn’t…

Ask for feedback, repeat.

Your Job

Be Proactive…whatever you are doing.

How Flexible Are You?

One of the hallmarks of my career, if you can call it a career, is that I have been able to adjust to change very readily. As I look around the world, I see people talk about being flexible and being able to adjust to change as something that they are totally into and cool […]

Sell Yourself First

I’ve been reminded of an experience I had in Seattle a number of years ago. At the time I was working in events and partnerships at the Liquid Lounge inside the Experience Music Project in Seattle and one of my roles was relations with high value donors to the museum. One day a woman […]

If You’ve Lost Your Way…

I meet a lot of people and sometimes I have even found myself in this position, so I am not afraid to talk about it, but what do you do when you have lost your way? The first thing is to stop everything for just long enough to realize what has happened. In my own […]