My wife recently took a position with the development department at the local zoo. As part of her on boarding she has been engaging in “behind the scenes” activities to see and engage the animals more closer with the keepers. Last week she met with the Elephants. She learned of their love of jelly beans […]
This morning disaster struck at work. Productivity will suffer as frustrations rise. Why? Because last night, before leaving the office, someone opened the dishwasher mid-cycle resulting in the dishwasher stopping. This action resulted in all coffee cups failing to be cleaned! No coffee cups = no coffee!Our office manager, who arrives as early as I
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What if you presented a tool or process to the c-suite, something that would (not could) increase revenue, improve morale and increase efficiency? No doubt they would leap at the opportunity right? Not quite… I recently heard a story (Axe Bat Wins Converts, But Has To Overcome Baseball Traditionalists) that immediately made me see parallels to innovations in
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I heard a short story on a local radio program this morning discussing the use of Traditional Media and Social Media. The story is not the part that caught my attention though. I got hung up on the use of the term “traditional” to define newsprint, television, radio, billboards, etc. I find it interesting (but
Sometimes (many times) you don’t have bottomless budgets and are “stuck” with the technology you’ve got. Well, true creativity happens in a box and sometimes that box is SharePoint. SharePoint as you are likely aware is a Microsoft enterprise platform that has many functions from document management, workflows, individual sites and department sites. Many organizations
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