by Liz Guthridge | Feb 22, 2017 | Blog
“You have to embrace new ideas and new technologies even when it’s painful. The whiff of obsolescence can kill you,” observed Marilyn Moats Kennedy in an interview with Chicago Score for a case study several years ago. This past January ovarian cancer killed Marilyn...
by Liz Guthridge | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog
How painful are the meetings you attend? Probably worse than you’d like to admit. If a pain detector could measure both the physical discomfort and social anguish you feel after your meetings, it could show scary outcomes with some unfortunate consequences. For...
by Liz Guthridge | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
If you read for work, it’s likely you encounter bad writing. Just think about all the email messages, memos, documents and other business writing that you read during the course of a day. Rather than read at a steady pace, you probably hit many speed bumps along the...
by Liz Guthridge | Jan 25, 2017 | Blog
What are you doing as an organization to build trust? If you’re not focusing on your employees, reconsider. Why? Trust in U.S. institutions – as well as the rest of the Western world — has plummeted over the past 12 months, as tracked by the 2017 Edelman...
by Liz Guthridge | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog
What will it take for business to adopt plain language, easy-to-read documents, and lean communications®? They address a business problem right in front of our faces. Even though this problem hurts our performance by sucking our time, draining our energy, and making...
by Liz Guthridge | Jan 9, 2017 | Blog
Can you try to be more vulnerable? Being vulnerable may be the positive self-disrupting move you need to become a better version of yourself. After all, in our VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world, what got you here won’t get you there. Why do you...
