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Preventing Stale Remote Work Relationships

Early in my career, when I began working for a leading high-tech company in California, I was asked to manage international marketing, and one experience has stuck with me as a key observation about remote working. A colleague was asked to move to our European HQ and to work directly with me in California. This was pre-Internet. We had phones and telex messages on long rolls of paper. My colleague and I discussed our impending new situation, and…

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Our Approach to What We Do

Our commitment to our clients is to provide exceptional value to them for their businesses. To achieve that goal, it is necessary to understand the communication environment needed to facilitate relationship-building, the foundation for successful consultation, and retained understanding that can be translated into results for the client. The recent rapid transition to online streaming business meetings, conferences and webinars has made that goal more challenging.

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Embracing Chaos

As a teenager I had the habit of asking myself odd questions. One of the most enduring of those “questions to myself” involved asking if there was some possible mathematical order to hideously complex physical phenomena like smoke rising from a cigarette. My question remained unanswered for decades until in 1987

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How I Am Working My Way Through This

I need to confess that I’m a procrastinator. I have always been a procrastinator, dependent on bursts of energy and productivity to compensate for my weakness. I have found a million reasons not to attend to what I know needs doing, especially now. I have drifted off to play Death Stranding, the new PlayStation 4 game, watching CNN or Netflix, and drinking too much wine.

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Why Generalists Triumph

This week I want to share with you an important book I have just read, the New York Times #1 bestseller, “Range, why generalist triumph in a specialized world,” by David Epstein. Epstein’s main point is that detailed prior training and specialization is far less important than learning a broader way of thinking that draws on multiple disciplines.

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