by Mark O'Brien | Mar 16, 2020
As an accomplished practitioner of Advanced Procrastination, I take exception to a recent article published by BBC Worklife. The offending missive is entitled, “Why procrastination is about managing emotions, not time.” Here’s the point at which its...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 9, 2020
I recently came across a video on bbc.com called, “Crossing Divides: How to cope when your boss is younger than you.” In an effort to be helpful, the video was presented with this text snippet: In a society increasingly fragmented by age, work is one place...
by JoAnna Bennett | Mar 5, 2020
SPAM & PROFESSIONALISM Professional Vulnerability JoAnna Bennett, O’Brien Communications Group 5 March 2020 Dear JoAnna, Did you read my last email? How about the first six that you ignored? I am sooo excited to begin our relationship together. I know...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 2, 2020
In 1999, I was working at a small public-relations firm in Avon, Connecticut. My dentist was in the next town east, which, oddly enough, is West Hartford. (Everything is relative.) Exiting I-84 on Prospect Street, I drove north on Prospect, intending to turn left onto...
by JoAnna Bennett | Feb 27, 2020
TRUTH & VULNERABILITY A Bad Story JoAnna Bennett, O’Brien Communications Group 27 February 2020 A common phrase in PR is, “No press is bad press.” If you don’t agree, you haven’t flexed your problem-solving muscles well enough. I’d like to extend this...
by Mark O'Brien | Feb 24, 2020
Now that Chicken Little has taken over at Harvard Business Review (HBR), she has a message for you: “GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain”. It’s not a typical children’s story. But it is a fairy tale. And along the lines of Hansel...
