Expert! Expert! Read All About It!

Expert! Expert! Read All About It!

SPAMMING & EXPERTISE Expert! Expert! Read All About It! JoAnna Bennett, O’Brien Communications Group 30 August 2019 If you missed the last time I confessed to my TV-less existence, I’ll spill the beans once more. I haven’t watched an adult television show...
Big Brother is a Bald Dude With a Weird Eye

Big Brother is a Bald Dude With a Weird Eye

Readers of George Orwell’s 1984 typically imagine Big Brother to be a rather ominous looking character — dark, menacing, clearly threatening, though he neither raises a fist nor carries a weapon. (Can someone please remind me, again, why 1984 isn’t required reading?)...
Define Your Riches

Define Your Riches

PREGNANCY, MOTHERHOOD & WORKPLACE Define Your Riches JoAnna Bennett, O’Brien Communications Group 22 August 2019 A headline on LinkedIn recently caught my eye: “Is pregnancy an obstacle at work?” The headline glared at me from the right side of my news feed....
Timeboxing is the New Discipline

Timeboxing is the New Discipline

Okay. Come on. Admit it: You were on the verge of losing faith in Harvard Business Review (HBR), weren’t you? You just didn’t think, after all the blatantly obvious and trivial inanities it’s published, it could continue to maintain its stride, right?  O, ye of little...
Fear

Fear

STRESS & MINDSET Fear JoAnna Bennett, O’Brien Communications Group 15 August 2019   While watching the movie, Croods, with my children this past weekend, I couldn’t get a quote from the introduction out of my head. While one of the main characters is...