International Drone Day May 7th!
Tomorrow is the Second Annual International Drone Day! So much has changed since the first International Drone Day. Last year, the message was “Drones Are Good.” The first International Drone Day came at a time when people were concerned about privacy, safety, spying, crashing and data being stolen. It was not uncommon for strangers to approach [Read More]
Radio Recap: Mothers in the Workplace
Mother’s Day is only 4 days away so today 'Dot Complicated with Randi Zuckerberg' celebrated by discussing how to parlay the soft, natural leadership skills of motherhood into the hard skills of the business world with Erica Keswin—Founding Principal of Organization Performance Relationships (O.P.R.), a boutique consulting firm that works with both individuals and businesses [Read More]
Reflections on 2016’s Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day
Earlier this year, former White Sox ringer, Adam LaRoche, retired from baseball—and a $13 million-dollar-a-year salary—after being told his 14-year-old son could no longer be in the locker room with him. This expensive decision brought up, once again, the impossibility of a complete 50-50 work / life balance. So one has to choose, family first or [Read More]
Radio Recap: Thinking Differently
To be a successful entrepreneur one must first create a new mindset—one with a set of values and perspectives that will carry through their business as they aim for greatness. It’s this different thinking that prepares the mind of the entrepreneur, allowing them to answer questions, overcome challenges, and live the 24/7 entrepreneurial lifestyle that’s [Read More]
Change In Our Pocket: Harriet Tubman on the $20
Score one for the fore-mothers of America as earlier this week the US Treasury Department announced Harriet Tubman will now replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Discussion of this change has been in the works for awhile, from everything to a vote of which woman should be on the bill to which bill would be replaced. The [Read More]
Radio Recap: ‘YouTuber of the Year’ Casey Neistat
YouTube phenom, Casey Neistat, truly has a rags-to-riches story to tell—one that he showcases almost daily in his widely popular vlogs, which have already garnered almost 3 million subscribers on YouTube and over 600 million views. A director, producer, authentic brand marketer for both corporations and himself, vlogger of authentically branded narratives and advertisements like [Read More]
Tax Time! Are You Ready?
Tax Day has become the Christmas for identity thieves. Between visits to your accountant, working full-time, and scavenging for financial documents, we often put security on the back burner during tax season. We often don’t think about secure passwords while filing our taxes online, or the dangers of emailing your accountant financial documents containing your social security number, [Read More]
April 12th = Equal Pay Day
April 12th marks Equal Pay Day—a day women have celebrated never. This date is symbolic of the amount of time it takes women's pay to catch up with their male counterpart's salary from the year before—even decades after the Equal Pay Act was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Today, before declaring the construction [Read More]