This Thursday December 10, 2020 at 10am, our own Kaydi McQuade will be leading a webinar on Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile with the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce. This free presentation will be broadcast live on the Chamber’s Facebook and Twitter feeds, and will be posted to YouTube immediately after. These practical and applicable tips…
So much of every day is spent putting out fires (hopefully mostly of the metaphorical variety), that it can be hard to realize the patterns and causes of what we do. Add to this that we often use the wrong metrics to measure the effectivity of our work, and it is not surprising that we…
Cultivating awe in our lives is more important the more stress tries to give us tunnel- vision, and the book Awestruck does a great job of suggesting ways both large and small to experience it. Grounded in research, Paquette describes “awe” as an experience that “transcends our understanding of the world, which forces us to…
Roger Martin looks at the roots of our current understanding of business structure in When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency. He posits that the drive towards efficiency to maximize productivity and profit has caused us to think of business as a machine in which each department is the equivalent of…
World Gratitude Day seems like the perfect time to talk about some of the things we have going on because I am grateful for the time to work through them that Covid has provided. In addition to the continued support of our existing clients, Back Pocket Resources is launching a new consulting practice to help…
“QBQ! THE QUESTION BEHIND THE QUESTION,” written by John G. Miller is a quick read, and was well worth it. With the summer season coming to a close, and the hustle and bustle of the school year coming quickly back into view, a book on practicing personal accountability at work and in life was just…
