Life In The Time of Quarantine Compassion, Compliance, and Continuous Improvement Better design means better for everyone Thirty years ago, the Americans with Disabilities act was signed into law, declaring that people with disabilities could no longer be denied access to jobs, school, transportation, or to public places. The need to design our conferences and trade shows to be ADA-compliant may have been met with resistance […] Written by BPH July 31, 2020October 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life In The Time of Quarantine No Blind Passing The view on the other side of the hill for the live events industry Most of us have experienced the frustration of being stuck behind a slow driver on a two-lane highway. If you’re on a hilly road, or one with lots of curves, you simply can’t pass them, because you can’t get a clear […] Written by BPH July 24, 2020October 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life In The Time of Quarantine Unity in Times of Crisis When we’re separated, we need to get it together. Remember the good old days when we used to worry about the distant future, instead of what’s going to happen tomorrow? I’m only being a bit sarcastic. The truth is, when we are worried about the future, instead of panicking, we make a plan. But when […] Written by BPH July 2, 2020October 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life In The Time of Quarantine A Poorly Kept Secret It’s all about people. Today closes what has been the toughest week the people of Freeman have faced since the industry shutdown during WWII. The pandemic has hit the Live Events industry especially hard and our people have been heroic in their efforts to support our customers and strategize a way through. Ultimately, with the […] Written by BPH June 26, 2020October 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lessons In Leadership Are You Avoiding Me? Office conflicts are rarely as damaging as the effort to avoid them. Conflict avoidance can seem like good “adulting,” but sometimes it’s as effective as hiding in bed with a blanket over your head. I get it. There are times when we are just not ready to grapple with a thorny issue that someone keeps […] Written by BPH May 29, 2020October 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life In The Time of Quarantine We’re Not In Kansas Anymore What to do when the scenery changes. When Dorothy stepped out from her black-and-white Kansas farmhouse into the Technicolor world of Oz, she knew right away she was a long way from home. I know how she feels. Sometimes it seems that the world we called “normal” was left behind ages ago. For those of […] Written by BPH May 26, 2020October 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
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
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
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
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
