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Zoom Fatigued? Go ‘Old School’ with Audio-Only Virtual Meetings
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- February 5, 2022
1 CommentGuest Post: Tina Dietz Much has been written about improving team connectivity and maintaining company culture in a remote working environment. The prevailing solution to increase team communication and productivity is having virtual meetings through Zoom, Slack, Skype, Google Meet and other video meeting platforms. Yet, we can all agree that “Zoom fatigue” is real
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Still Not Sure What to Write About?
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- January 28, 2022
Having a bylined article in your name is one of the most effective ways to establish credibility in your industry and to position yourself as the go-to expert in your area of expertise. It also makes you a magnet for podcast producers, speaker bureaus and conference organizers seeking articulate experts. In fact, the annual CPA
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When Life Forces You to Slow Down
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- September 28, 2021
The problem with Coach K’s “Next Play” philosophy I’ve never been the type to slow down and smell the roses. But after 30+ years of triathlons, marathons, tennis, kayaking, open-water swimming and coaching baseball, the wear and tear on my body finally caught up. Step 1: Shoulder surgery to repair a torn rotator, labrum and
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Writing: The First Step for Successful Innovation
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- August 8, 2021
Forget apps, hacks and shortcuts. Writing takes practice, practice, practice Last week’s post about The Key to Writing Faster provoked a lot of feedback. In fact, Jeffrey Wyant, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Coast to Coast Fulfillment, Inc. in West Greenwich, Rhode Island submitted a great guest post that I wanted to share with you.
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The Key to Writing Faster
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- July 28, 2021
My college track coach was not the nicest guy in the world, but he had a unique ability to distill complex concepts into the simplest terms. On our first day of practice, he gathered all the nervous freshmen together and barked: “Gentlemen: The key to running faster is to practice running faster. Hopefully it won’t
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John Legend: Winning Doesn’t Have to Be a Zero-Sum Game
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- May 9, 2021
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, John Legend, delivered a stirring commencement address at my son’s college graduation last weekend. With his signature tenor-baritone voice wafting over Wallace-Wade stadium, he shook the sleepy students out of their slumber with expletive-filled acronyms DDMF and GTHC familiar to anyone who’s watched a Duke-Carolina basketball game. Clearly, it wasn’t going to
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Less Is More in the ‘Excess of Everything’ Age
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- August 11, 2016
What we can learn Olympic boxers, cyclists, amateur fly-fishermen and backyard trampoline enthusiasts. On the advice of our client, Gary Klaben of Chicago-based Coyle Financial Counsel, I picked up a copy of Matthew May’s The Laws of Subtraction. I was trying to squeeze in a little R&R in the deep woods of western Michigan where
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