While a viral pandemic can change how we live and how we work, it can’t change who we are. Humans are social beings. People thrive on human connection. Getting together is what we do!
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Lots of prognosticators predicting we’ll never go to the office again, nor will we ever attend another live event. This is the “New Normal” they say — a phrase I’ve heard thousands of times since early March.
The prognosticators are wrong and I’ll tell you why in three simple categories: Discipline, Participation, and the Human Effect.
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A couple weeks ago, my friend declared every day “Blursday.” The past two months have been a struggle for all of us, but the country is starting to open up. Here’s where to apply your focus to successfully rebound from the shutdown
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Economics, at its very basics, is about human decision making. You may have been miffed by the supply and demand charts thinking economics was all abstract theories and equations. It’s not. Boiled down, economics equals human decision making.
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One of many things a career in comedy taught me is the value of what I call “crowd feel.” With the world careening into a Covid-19 caused crisis, your comprehension of crowd feel is more important than ever.
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The Coronavirus pandemic has many people working from home who previously didn’t. Whether or not this trend will last, or even how long it will last, is unknown. One thing’s for certain: people still need to connect, collaborate, and meet to do business. Many of those meetings are moving online and oftentimes they’re not very productive.
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Businesses large and small find themselves suddenly dislocated due to coronavirus. Employees are working from home (well, sort of!). Vendors can’t make personal sales calls. The office is shuttered. And the manager trying to keep the business running amidst “corona chaos,” is losing her mind!
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When you owe the bank $1 million, the bank owns you. When you owe the bank $100 million, you own the bank. We got really comfortable. We got really complacent, almost got lazy about just allowing ourselves to become dependent on China and it was not lost on them.
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If you’re in business, you suddenly face a marketplace reality you barely had time to prepare for. Your income will likely take a hit. You’ll be forced to make a lot of adjustments at rapid speed over the next few weeks. And, you’re likely to have slack time on your hands that you hadn’t anticipated.
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If you run your own business, you wear a lot of hats. It’s normal to ask — somewhat desperately, “Where should I spend my time and where do I begin?”
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