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
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, 2021May 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
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, 2021May 6, 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
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, 2021May 6, 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, 2021May 6, 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, 2021May 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
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
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
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
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
