opportunity

Communicate With Speed: The Power and Opportunity of Twitter

Does Twitter Have You Stumped? Do You Tweet? Many of my friends do not tweet. Only a few members of my family do. It is not relevant to them - yet. So, I understand when scoffers scoff and skeptics skep. But I see and have benefited from the power and opportunity behind Twitter. Communicate and with speed. I was check daily [...]

February 7, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Fortune: Random Success is Rarely Random

by Ray_anne

Fortune Cookie say… Chinese food last night. Shrimp fried pineapple rice – my favorite. Of course, most Chinese food is accompanied by fortune cookies, I love fortune cookies – the best part of this meal shared with my family is the reading of the fortunes. I purposefully make my children select their own cookies – [...]

November 6, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Creating Blue Ocean Opportunity for Yourself

by Ray_anne

I believe opportunity. When I was seven, I wanted a skateboard. The year was 1970. Some kids in my surrounding neighborhoods had skateboards and the sport was starting to make a comeback. History states that skateboards were created in the 1940s or so to fulfill a surfer’s urge to ride waves even when the [...]

November 5, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Technology Storm: Where We Learn

by Ray_anne

Did you catch the Wave? Do you even remember it? Just two short years ago, Google gave WAVE a proper goodbye. I never jumped on the Google Wave bandwagon; I tried it once, it just didn’t appeal to me and I could see that in order for it to truly work, work well, that many - a lot - practically everyone had to adopt it [...]

October 2, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Red Kite Moments: Asking the Questions to Seize Opportunity

by Ray_anne

I love my job. I love that I get to work in a brilliant combo of two great industries: Recruiting and Technology. My company, Broadbean, was founded by a former recruiter, Mr. Kelly Robinson. The business was built and created by a recruiter for recruiters – to benefit the Recruiting and HR industries – to [...]

August 15, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Building Confidence Through Risk

by Ray_anne

“The cold darkness swooped in as I walked up a cobble-stoned road, my boots tap-tapping. A sound echoed behind me. I stopped to listen. Nothing. I started back on my way. Their was an echo behind me once again, this time I turned when I stopped. A couple passed down a distant road but no others [...]

June 20, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

My Famous Mom

by Ray_anne

We all know what can potentially happen when you “assume” something. Assumptions can lead to unfortunate and misguided understandings. The best way to correct an invailid or incorrect assumption is to make sure all infomation and details are shared regularly and with accuracy. Assumptions occur when true information is not forthcoming. Behaving professionally isn’t [...]

May 8, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Risk: Just Do It! What have you got to gain?

by Ray_anne

Failing to Burn A friend once told me of his 30+ year journey through adulthood. He had always stayed on the straight and narrow path, the safe road. He wondered aloud, often, where he might be today if he had played it a little less safe and taken a right turn or even a “wrong” [...]

April 2, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Discover and Grow: The Payoff of Learning

by Ray_anne

Several years ago, I sat across the desk from a Senior Executive at a Hospital in Northern Illinois. It was a gorgeous Midwestern day and I was thrilled to be so close to Chicago and its pizza. We (the Managing Director of our firm and I) had traveled from California to place a bid on [...]

November 14, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Seeping Incompetence: It’s Everywhere

by Ray_anne

Do you remember the old saying, “You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar” ? I am not a huge fan of flies and never really understood why anyone would want to catch ‘em anyway, but I get the sentiment of the statement and observed a direct demonstration of the honey versus vinegar argument [...]