I recently sat down with Chris to talk about how food and conversation can bring people together. This is an excerpt from our interview.
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Our observations are that that one-way channel of communication takes out empathy. It takes out our want and our need to connect and to serve others. There's an old Cartesian quote of, "I think; therefore, I am." That's where we are in the world today, and we believe that we should change into the old Ubuntu quote, "You are, therefore I am."
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The Unwritten Rules of Naming Your Business
The following excerpt is from Brad Flowers’s The Naming Book . Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound
Every industry has a set of unwritten branding rules, or tendencies, that become codified over time. Sometimes they can become clichés. Most industries will have only a few types of names. This happens naturally: One company finds success, and the next company mimics them because it worked for the first. The next thing you know, it’s a rule, and no one remembers why it started. This applies to everything from how businesses are run to color choice and typography to their names.
Oregon Business - How Businesses Should Plan for Coronavirus
Two experts in crisis communications weigh in on how companies should plan ahead to deal with the disruption caused by the novel virus.
Keeping communications flowing with employees and customers about what the business is doing to deal with the crisis is an important way to stymie disruption to daily operations.
Two experts in crisis communications — Wendy Lane Stevens and Lisa Heathman, both partners at public relations firm LANE/Finn Partners — discuss the kind of communications plans businesses can adopt to reduce the impact of the novel virus.
APIs Put Velocity In Business Payments | PYMNTS.com
Initially dismissive and then distrustful, businesses mostly lost out on phase one of the instant money phenomenon. At this point in time, corporate treasurers are still more likely to have personally used a peer-to-peer (P2P) app than to have sent a real-time B2B vendor payment.
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Digging into the March 2020 B2B API Tracker® , powered by Red Hat , we discover that legacy banks and traditional financial institutions (FIs) are now streaming into the open banking and application programming interface (API) spaces with a true sense of urgency and purpose. There's catching up to do.
Many things are taking place:
Skowhegan High course is student’s entrepreneurial springboard to own business -
SKOWHEGAN — When Lauren Enright was in grade school, she was heavily involved in the duct-tape fad, creating wallets and bringing them to school to sell to her teachers and classmates.
Skowhegan Area High School senior Lauren Enright, 18, right, was influenced by teacher Darcy Fitzmaurice, left, during the class "Start Your Own Business," taught by Fitzmaurice at Skowhegan High. Morning Sentinel photo by Rich Abrahamson Buy this Photo
Enright, whose soap-making business launched in the fall of 2018, credits a course taught at Skowhegan Area High School for showing her the skills, applications and practice of business ownership.
America's Hottest New Dating Sites: Business School Campuses - WSJ
Liza Merolla and her husband, Justin Merolla, are among a growing number of couples who met through one of the world's most expensive dating sites.
Managing Force Majeure With An Alert Business Culture
Many pithy statements have been attributed to Jack Welch, the American business legend who passed away earlier this month. One of my favourites is, "if the rate of change on the outside is greater than the rate of change on the inside, the end is near". It goes almost without saying that the rate of change on the outside is increasing: the 'clock speed' of business, in terms of product cycles, new technology roll-outs, and social media stories, seems higher than ever.
" If the rate of change on the outside is greater than the rate of change on the inside, the end is near ". The late Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric.
Council Post: 13 Techniques To Make Your Business Feel More 'Local'
A business that remembers its local roots has a particular identity that can become part of its brand engineering. Even companies that market further afield can look back to their place of origin and use it to help their marketing. The "local touch" can be a unique take on what the business offers. Far more consumers identify with businesses that are (or seem) local than those that are generic in their branding.
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