The General Problem While working in remote conditions, many interactions with co-workers can feel very transactional. This is not terrible, but far from inspiring. The casual water cooler talks don't happen anymore, and many people are burnt out from the “Team Social Hour" meetings. We...
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When you may need something in the future, whether it be advice, an introduction or something else, it’s a far more comfortable ask versus what feels like a cold-call
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I wrote an article on LinkedIn and thought to publish here as well. Here is the link, in case you choose to engage there: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/data-wrangling-career-strangling-kerry-hew/ Data Wrangling is Career Strangling Data wrangling is a necessary process when working...
I was recently asked to interview a candidate who we are entertaining to join first PRO . Business continues to be brisk, so adding talent to make us better and drive productivity is a sensible concept, though interviewing for new talent anytime is always a smart idea. This same candidate...
For nearly the past three years in Philly, it has almost never snowed. I like it when it snows. Watching a snowfall is a wonderful thing to do. Sitting in a nice warm home, maybe by a fire, catching up on some reading or continuing binge-watching of whatever on Netflix, enjoying a nice beverage...
The holiday season is fast approaching and unlike any holiday season in memory, we are adjusting to maintain as much normalcy in our lives as possible. Spending time with those important and special to us, especially in business, took on a new meaning in 2020. Something as simple as sitting down...
The COVID-19 Pandemic, as of this writing, has now entered its 27th week. By the time you may read this blog, we will be well into week 28. That is more than six months. Over 180 days. More than 4,300 hours. Some 259,000+ minutes. You get the idea. Regardless as to how you slice it, it has been...
If history is the teacher it has been deemed to be, we have learned that economies, during stressed and recessed times, force us to look for creative answers to solve pressing business-related dilemmas. Despite a current 10.2% unemployment rate, and more than 30 million Americans receiving some...
Recently, I worked for a large financial institution on the client side, leading a global enterprise-wide team that served 12 million customers and more than 46,000 employees. My team focused on digital analytics; there were other teams actively using digital data, but we were the digital data...
I told myself, when I started to write this blog, that I would not stoop to a series of references involving the ‘P’ word – meaning Pandemic, while writing. After all, we have been overloaded with negative story after negative story, and one deflating article after another, about the damage the...