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Vacation Dreaming

As we all dream about the day we can go back to our somewhat “normal” lives, and get back on the road, I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking about my next vacation destination. The hospitality industry, among others, has…
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Safe

In November 2018, I woke up to a normal Thursday. When I went to bed that night, the town of 20,000 in which I lived had been almost wiped off the map, swept away as if a willful giant had stomped through bent on nothing short of total…
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Never a Better Time to Learn

Simon Sinek’s latest book, The Infinite Game, focuses on embracing the infinite mindset, where learning is lifelong, and how possibilities become opportunities when acted on. In 2002, MIT disrupted the world of lifelong learning by creating…
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Local Focus vs. The Big Board

During this COVID-19 crisis, I’ve found that a person gets much more meaningful information through localized sources. The national TV news has their “big board” approach showing countries, then state counts of cases and…
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A Fair and Unbiased Response to BMW’s New Logo

For those of you who aren’t car fanatics like me and some of my friends, car manufacturer Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (commonly referred to as BMW) made news early March ’20 when they modified their logo… for the digital age. Check…
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Good News

It’s really easy to run into the wind right now and read all of the stressful news out there. Instead I thought it would be nice to create a list of my favorite things I found through my recent internet scrolling to spread a little bit…
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Creative Adaptability

“These are weird times.” That’s one way to sum up what humanity is going through right now. While the world has seen pandemics before, we’ve never seen one on this scale in our modern society. Luckily, access to information has…
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) – The Beginning of the End for Commercial Office Space

During the course of our qualitative research at Ideba, we interview a lot of fascinating people from around the world. In the past week, that has included senior executives from Europe, Asia and the Americas, the vast majority of whom…
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Are working relationships dead?

With ever evolving technology, it feels that we communicate almost solely through email. It might be effective, but can you build a relationship with someone over email? For me, that’s a hard no. Sure, you can try to maintain relationships…