by Beckie Manley | Aug 31, 2015 | Fierce Excerpts
*image from: http://www.businessinsider.com/taco-bell-and-pizza-hut-are-getting-rid-of-artificial-ingredients-2015-5 Now Reading | The Science of Selling Pizza from Ogilvydo.com Food brands are tricky. We’ve experienced the challenges firsthand as...
by Beckie Manley | Aug 21, 2015 | Fierce Excerpts
Now Reading | The Power of “And”: How Women can be Fierce and Feminine. *photo: http://www.ted.com/talks/gayle_tzemach_lemmon_meet_the_first_women_to_fight_on_the_front_lines_of_an_american_war I am currently cruising at 30,000 feet in a Delta plane...
by Beckie Manley | Aug 5, 2015 | Creative Process, Fierce Excerpts
image from becuo.com Now Reading | How to do a Walking Meeting Right I have never heard of a walking meeting before today and I am intrigued. Apparently it is a new trend to “walk and talk” instead of sitting in a board room all day around the conference...
by Beckie Manley | Aug 3, 2015 | Fierce Excerpts, From the CEO
Image from Quill + Arrow (follow them on Instagram @quillandarrow and visit them at 7tonco.com) Now Reading | Why Compassion is a Better Managerial Tactic than Toughness As a boss, sometimes it’s hard to know how to respond when an employee does not perform...
by Beckie Manley | Jul 28, 2015 | Fierce Excerpts, From the CEO
Photo: Me and my son Jack Now Reading | How to Break the Tyranny of Work-Life Balance. The very first paragraph of Maria Popova’s article won my heart: The equilibrium between productivity and presence is one of the hardest things to master in life, and one of...
by Beckie Manley | Jul 27, 2015 | Fierce Excerpts
Cartoon: dilbert.com Now Reading | The Push Against Performance Reviews Performance reviews have been hated from the dawn of time. According to the author, job ratings were used (and criticized) in China as early as the third century; in the early eighteen-hundreds,...