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, 2021March 20, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Thoughts from the Zeitgeist 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, 2021March 8, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lessons In Leadership Brain Health — It’s Just Smart In stressful times, employee appreciation begins with supporting brain health. A year ago, just before COVID-19 started forcing lockdowns, a small group of Freeman people attended a lecture by Bonnie Pittman, who is an art historian, scholar, author, and Director of Art/Brain Innovations at the Center for BrainHealth for The University of Texas at Dallas. She lectures and […] Written by BPH March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lessons In Leadership Leading Through Tough Times These three attributes are critical. I always enjoy chatting with my friend Candy Gray. In addition to being an HR leader at Facebook, she also has experience at DreamWorks SKG, Disney, Airplay, and assignments where she’s rubbed shoulders with all types of talented individuals and would-be leaders. We’ve compared notes on what it takes to […] Written by BPH February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Live In The Time of Quarantine Don’t Drink the Poison Blind anger makes it hard to find our way. I heard a story once about a man who complained that every time he tried to quit smoking, everyone around him became oversensitive. The truth, of course, was that the stress of withdrawal caused him to be rude, grouchy, and ill-tempered; he offended everyone. Recently, it […] Written by BPH February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Live In The Time of Quarantine It’s Been a Year Thinking about an anniversary we didn’t expect to celebrate. On Saturday, January 30, I was catching up on some work and thinking about how much I miss the proximity of my team. We haven’t been together in about a year. Of course, we talk and email constantly. We text a lot. We use video conferencing. […] Written by BPH February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Thoughts from the Zeitgeist Lift Every Voice The lessons of Black History Month. Do you have a favorite version of the inspirational anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”? There are some amazing renditions on YouTube; I love hearing the uniquely stirring interpretations by Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Alicia Keys. Ray Charles’ is classic! And I recently discovered that the COVID-era version […] Written by BPH February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Live In The Time of Quarantine Diversify Your People Portfolio It’s a business decision. I’ve written about diversity before and I’m pretty sure this won’t be the last time. It’s something I’m passionate about, because it matters on so many levels. That’s why I’m always caught off guard when people assume that corporate diversity initiatives, like the ones we have at Freeman, are somehow designed […] Written by BPH January 29, 2021January 29, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Live In The Time of Quarantine Resiliency and Resolve Gearing up for the next marathon. I am by nature an optimistic person, but I have to admit that 2020 pushed me about as hard as I’ve been pushed in recent memory. That’s probably why I greeted the dawn of 2021 with an almost superstitious sense of optimism — as if a single night’s sleep […] Written by BPH January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Live In The Time of Quarantine Unplanned Obsolescence Relevance is the outcome of choices and actions. I like to imagine that years from now I will be socializing with colleagues and, like old soldiers, we will recount stories from the darkest days of our careers way back in 2020. It’s taken a toll on everyone, in more ways than we can begin to […] Written by BPH December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Thoughts from the Zeitgeist Baby Steps Our preferences aren’t as logical as we think. Marketers have long obsessed with building brand loyalty, but the foundation of that loyalty may not be as logical as we’d like to believe. A recent Fast Company article reported that the researchers at Johns Hopkins who studied a group of babies found that when they randomly […] Written by BPH November 13, 2020November 16, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Early Lessons in Leadership When Empathy Trumps Authority Early lessons in leadership — #1. I’d love to tell you a story about myself as the child prodigy who led a fund drive to acquire new life-saving equipment — that I helped invent — to support the local children’s hospital. But for me, the path to leadership has been less Hollywood and more humbling. […] Written by BPH October 8, 2020October 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
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, 2021March 20, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
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, 2021March 8, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Brain Health — It’s Just Smart In stressful times, employee appreciation begins with supporting brain health. A year ago, just before COVID-19 started forcing lockdowns, a small group of Freeman people attended a lecture by Bonnie Pittman, who is an art historian, scholar, author, and Director of Art/Brain Innovations at the Center for BrainHealth for The University of Texas at Dallas. She lectures and […] Written by BPH March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Don’t Drink the Poison Blind anger makes it hard to find our way. I heard a story once about a man who complained that every time he tried to quit smoking, everyone around him became oversensitive. The truth, of course, was that the stress of withdrawal caused him to be rude, grouchy, and ill-tempered; he offended everyone. Recently, it […] Written by BPH February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
