If you are a Vice President or Director and have the resources to research the best tactics for marketing an upcoming product release, you have the luxury to choose the “best” option. Instead, if you’re a smaller operation or even a one-person operation, you don’t have the luxury of choosing the “best” marketing strategy. You …
On May 29, 2018, Starbucks is closing all its US stores for diversity training. According to Time Magazine, experts say that in light of recent events, this is not enough—myself included. It’s not that I believe this training should be skipped. It’s that I believe Starbucks culture is more likely the problem. (For more on organizational …
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The Campaign to End Loneliness has a hefty goal. We’re not talking about a simple human emotion here. Research on loneliness consistently shows concerning data that requires attention. According to Medical News Today, “loneliness [is] a bigger killer than obesity,” with other research likening loneliness to smoking in terms of its affects on mortality rates. A new report …
Dealing with customer service representatives can be a horrendous experience, plagued by rudeness. How many hours have you spent on the phone or over email explaining the same situation to different people until you manage to find the person who can finally help with your issue? Maybe you’ve even been in a situation where that …
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Part 2: From A Story of Sabotage Most Organizations Would Never Tell You Following the intentional take down of all Smart Self web properties by a mistaken and disgruntled developer (read the full story here), we want to share our lessons learned. The Short Story In short, we hired a qualified developer …
Part 1: A Story of Sabotage Most Organizations Would Never Tell You Miscommunication is at the root of almost all disagreements. What we believe about people has to do with ourselves more so than others, or the way we have been treated. For Smart Self this lesson went from crystal clear to VVS diamond-clear …
Getting through the bumps is a necessary phase in achievement. Whether you’re fighting for the job, chasing the sale, or scraping your way to just about any goal, nothing great comes easy. So how do you keep your edge, your optimism, your joy… Even as you suffer pain? I’m loathe to turn to pop culture …
We often think of organizational culture (or community culture for that matter,) as something of an enigma. We feel that it arises organically in spite of any concerted effort for or against it. And when things go abysmally wrong, we point at this enigma, this thing we couldn’t have controlled even if we wanted to, …
Why Games? At one time video games were exclusively seen as a facet of geek culture or something for children and teens. But since the turn of the century and the technological boom, gaming has made its way into the mainstream. In 2015, more than 50 percent of the Canadian population, or 19 million people …
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