Return on Specific Anxiety (ROSA)

Our inability to quickly and effectively manage COVID-19 forced us to create a new measure of organizational success. In the Before Times (2019 and before), profitability was a key metric of economic success for businesses….

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An Experiment in Virtual Team Building

I had what I thought was a really good, fun idea.  I organized a virtual cooking class for the CultureSync team.  I had multiple agendas—mostly driven by our values.  As with any good team building…

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Mitigating Bias in the Age of Remote Working

I am taking an uncomfortable look at how my biases show up and I am actively working on noticing and changing my own biased behavior by following a process. Pre-Covid, I was the captain of…

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Hey Guys!

Words are incredibly powerful. We can choose our words carefully, yet the impact of our terms can cause harm. We might choose our words ignorantly and inadvertently say something offensive. Language is ever-evolving. Year by…

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Reflections from a White Guy on a DEI Panel

My World Turned Upside Down “We are going to record the panel discussion today.” These were the scariest words I’d heard in a long time. I have two high-school age daughters at home, we’re in…

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