by Joanie Connell | May 20, 2014 | Blog, Parenting for the Workplace, REAL Life Skills
By Joanie Connell Parents and students beware! Don’t get suckered into taking out unaffordable college loans because you think you have to. You don’t. The problem with financial models is they assume people make rational decisions. There’s nothing rational about...
by Joanie Connell | May 12, 2014 | Blog, Employee Engagement and Retention, Flexible Work, Leadership
By Joanie Connell A scary trend is emerging for companies to ban flexible work. Don’t do it. As explained in last week’s post about following along the fads without thinking, this is a bad idea. The workplace is changing whether we like it or not. That is a constant....
by Joanie Connell | May 6, 2014 | Blog, Flexible Work, Leadership, Millennials
by Joanie Connell The downside of operating at lightning speed is that we don’t have time to reflect on what we’re doing. We respond to challenges with knee-jerk reactions and leap onto the bandwagon without ever stopping to question whether this is the right way to...