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Are You Defined by What You Do?

by Ray_anne
Yes, I am that good

Who are you? What do you do?   While these two questions are very different, we are sometimes (unfortunately) more clearly defined by what we do.  Deep thoughts, indeed, as it is not always so easy to recognize that the inner you might be very different than the you you present to the world. Knowing how to manage you can be an elusive [...]

May 1, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Regard Your Work

by Ray_anne
regard your work

I used to plow through my days at the speed of light.   If I slowed down, I would fall behind.  I couldn’t afford to fall behind.  What if I got left?  My greatest fear as an adult has always been failure.  I have much to do, so I haven’t stopped, but I have learned [...]

April 23, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Rewarding Less Than Stellar Service

by Ray_anne
my little Honda

I had stood patiently for my car in the parking garage for the first half hour.  I had given my ticket to the valet thirty minutes earlier.  Seriously, thirty minutes. Finally, an attendant strolled lazily over and asked me for my ticket. “I gave you my ticket already.” Ten minutes later still no car. “Do [...]

April 10, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Capability Lie: it only gets worse

by Ray_anne
the capability lie

Do you tell it?   I have written about The Capability Lie before, but after my last week, I have been thinking about it once again and I would like to revisit this disease and frankly, I shake too many hands that drip with it…   The longer I am in business, the more I [...]

April 1, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Automation vs. Organic & Real: what do we lose?

by Ray_anne
QR Codes for Automated Social Selection

Satisfy, Justify, Mystify You’ve probably heard of Spotify.  I have it on my iPhone, laptop, and all three of my desktops.  I love it.  It has changed the way I select, play, and listen to music.  If you haven’t yet checked it out, you should.  A new world of free music is just a click [...]

March 27, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Truth in Advertising: Perspective & the Eye of the Beholder

by Ray_anne
behold, the eye

Perspective Emails, tweets, status updates, blogs, surveys, voicemails, text messages…, So many ways to get a message across. How do we break it down? How do we disseminate truth from made-up, happy-go-lucky, too-good-too-believe mostly true?  Advertising, marketing, bragging, or sharing? If it feels like a template, it just might be. If it feels like a [...]

March 23, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

“Dude, This is Who I am and I’m Authentic…”

by Ray_anne
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Authenticity, Transparency, and Respect.   Are we thinking about authenticity the way we should? I have met plenty of business professionals who have always been transparent and authentic – throughout there careers.  But the talk continues.  This can only make me believe that a problem continues… Someone can use several four-letter words in a blog [...]

March 16, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Professional or Pest and the Lack of Airplane Etiquette

by Ray_anne
professional or pest

Professional or Pest?   I just returned from Austin on a very uneventful flight, given the enormously eventful SXSW Interactive Conference I had just attended, I was thankful for the rest.  I fly often for work; I actually like to fly – unless there is a noisy, unruly, loud, obnoxious, or farting passenger seated near [...]

March 15, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Everyone in Business is an Adrenaline Junkie

by Ray_anne
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I guess you could say I am a risk-taker   When I was six years old, I was a holy terror on roller skates, the jungle gym, and bicycle. I remember swinging around and around on the monkey bars, first whipping around on one leg and then soon graduated to both legs, knees bent over the bar. [...]

March 14, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Management: 10 Tips for Time, Work, & Life

by Ray_anne
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I write an awful lot about time management, business management, and life management. I write about management because I need it. I need to manage my time. I need to manage my work. And I need to manage my life.   This isn’t something I gradually came to; it is something that I have worked [...]

February 27, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Business Strength of Vulnerability or the Padlocked Lie

by Ray_anne
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Not a Franchise I remember a little pizzeria called Good Fellas. The atmosphere was great and the food? Even better.  We stopped in every so often to have a pizza pie and get a salad bar rush.  It was just a little independently-owned pizza place. Maybe it’s called some other hunger-inducing Italian name in your [...]

February 24, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Life in Human Resources is Not Easy, Ever.

by Ray_anne
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Comfort. Some things in life are more comfortable than others. It can be a bit disconcerting to receive a phone call from a client who expected more from your relationship or be summoned to your superior’s office to hear the dreaded words, “I don’t like anything you have suggested.” Or how about that time when you [...]

February 6, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Good Things Come to Those Who Take Them

by Ray_anne
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I love George Carlin.  Posting a quote by him always makes me happy, because he says the things we think but usually don’t have the guts to say.  Given the current tumultuous state of the Republican US presidential primary and the vehemence with which many are speaking concerning the presidential election slated for this November, [...]

January 12, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

5 Best Leadership Practice Blogs

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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Leadership Blogs; Topics, Models, Training and Development for Effective Leadership As an organization is an organism that is ever-evolving, growing, and changing, leadership blogs can help you stay on top.  It’s important for organizational leaders to continue focusing on upping their game, learning new tools of the trade while continuing to focus on their teams [...]

January 9, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Saving Sandcastles – Making Sound Choices Today

by Ray_anne
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Last summer, I sat in my beach chair, flanked by my two daughters and enjoyed the Sunday afternoon sun as we watched our surfers. The day had started off a bit foggy but the midday heat soon erased the memory of our cooler morning. The sounds of children delighted squealing and mothers’ seagull-like beckoning filled [...]

January 6, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Removing the Wedge

by Ray_anne
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When I was twenty-seven years old, my parents divorced. It was a difficult time, I thought my parents would always be together. But change happens, it is the one constant. And with that change came many others. I doubted myself and my own marriage. I questioned who I was and underneath it all, I found reasons [...]

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