Live In The Time of Quarantine Come Together The incredible rightness of being — live-and-in-person. Have you seen it yet? The electrical current that seems to light the faces of an audience when they are reunited with their tribe after nearly two years of pandemic isolation? Broadway is reopening shows that were abruptly canceled in March of 2020 and audiences and performers alike […] Written by BPH October 14, 2021October 14, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Live In The Time of Quarantine The Wisdom Ratio Solving for x in the new world order. I was thinking the other day about ‘mechanical advantage.’ It’s what we learned about in school as the way to measure the efficiency of such simple machines as levers and pulleys. If it took 100 pounds of pulling power to lift a 600-pound weight with a block […] Written by BPH October 8, 2021October 8, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Live In The Time of Quarantine Posts You Won't Want to Miss Let’s Do the Work We Love It’s not the vaccine — it’s what it enables. What would you do to keep doing the things you most love to do? I know people who drive past all the nearby BBQ joints to get to the one that gets the sauce just right. Or who pay more for products that don’t exploit workers […] Written by BPH August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Posts You Won't Want to Miss Hitting Pause Sometimes in the race to what’s next we have to let the rest of the world catch up. Have you ever had this experience? You are fast-forwarding through a video to get to the “good part” when you unexpectedly catch a glimpse of something — something interesting, confusing, provoking — and you hit pause. Then, […] Written by BPH September 3, 2021September 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Posts You Won't Want to Miss The Next Big Thing Isn’t Hybrid events are a transition to something better. During the deepest days of the pandemic, we learned that the Number One search query on our Freeman website was “hybrid.” This term had become shorthand for the sort of stop-gap live/virtual event format favored by the industry as it regrouped following pandemic-driven event cancellations. In March […] Written by BPH June 30, 2021June 30, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Posts You Won't Want to Miss This Is My Job Seeing the people who aren’t there. I’m old enough to remember leaders who felt totally justified in dismissing discrimination and other vital social issues as, “not my job.” There was a sense not only of entitlement but actual indignation that these “bleeding-heart” issues should be raised in a business context. The history of American business […] Written by BPH June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Live In The Time of Quarantine Unexpressed Expectations = Planned Resentment Recovery begins with a realistic recalibration. There’s a psychological phenomenon that I refer to as “unexpressed expectations = planned resentment.” In all walks of life — social, business, family, recreational — people are disappointed, become angry, and are sometimes disillusioned because an outcome falls short of their hopes and dreams. And they don’t connect their resentment with […] Written by BPH July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Live In The Time of Quarantine A Good Problem to Have Ramping back up in the new world order. It seems ages since we started having those tough discussions about furloughing our amazing team members. And now we’re approaching summer again. At long last, our clients are talking about the return to in-person live events. That means our leadership team can make plans to ramp up and […] Written by BPH May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Live In The Time of Quarantine Let’s Play Ball! It’s time for spring training. Maybe it’s spring fever, maybe it’s that second vaccine, but I have this unshakeable feeling that our industry is coming out of a deep thaw. That is good news for everyone. But it’s going to take longer for some businesses to return to action than others. And that means that […] Written by BPH May 17, 2021May 17, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Posts You Won't Want to Miss Define Filters for Your Go-Forward Plan When seismic shifts alter the landscape, it’s time to reconnoiter. It’s been interesting to see how various enterprises have learned to pivot in order to remain viable during this prolonged pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Physicians and their elderly patients have learned to connect on streaming video and many of us have had a COVID […] Written by BPH April 19, 2021May 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Posts You Won't Want to Miss We Are All Designers MAU: Documenting the power of design thinking We can all be champions of positive change. I am so proud. My dear friend, Freeman Chief Design Officer Bruce Mau, is the subject of the eponymous documentary currently being screened at SXSW. He has led an amazing life and inspired so many people, from such different walks of life, to embrace a design-thinking approach and effect […] Written by BPH March 20, 2021August 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lessons In Leadership Posts You Won't Want to Miss The Gender-Bias Challenge Celebrating International Women’s Day. Have you noticed lately how many women have been promoted to the C-suite level of their respective organizations? If you have, the next question you answer may be more revealing. Have you noticed how many men have achieved this distinction? My point is, our brains are hard-wired to detect incongruities in […] Written by BPH March 8, 2021August 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Come Together The incredible rightness of being — live-and-in-person. Have you seen it yet? The electrical current that seems to light the faces of an audience when they are reunited with their tribe after nearly two years of pandemic isolation? Broadway is reopening shows that were abruptly canceled in March of 2020 and audiences and performers alike […] Written by BPH October 14, 2021October 14, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Wisdom Ratio Solving for x in the new world order. I was thinking the other day about ‘mechanical advantage.’ It’s what we learned about in school as the way to measure the efficiency of such simple machines as levers and pulleys. If it took 100 pounds of pulling power to lift a 600-pound weight with a block […] Written by BPH October 8, 2021October 8, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Hitting Pause Sometimes in the race to what’s next we have to let the rest of the world catch up. Have you ever had this experience? You are fast-forwarding through a video to get to the “good part” when you unexpectedly catch a glimpse of something — something interesting, confusing, provoking — and you hit pause. Then, […] Written by BPH September 3, 2021September 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Let’s Do the Work We Love It’s not the vaccine — it’s what it enables. What would you do to keep doing the things you most love to do? I know people who drive past all the nearby BBQ joints to get to the one that gets the sauce just right. Or who pay more for products that don’t exploit workers […] Written by BPH August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
