5 Leaders Share Lessons for First-Time Managers

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Good leadership is an essential for any successful company, but it’s not always easy for junior or first-time managers to adapt to their role. Many times, leaders look back on their career and have a whole host of new insights and knowledge they wish they’d known all along. When we started Impraise 3 years ago, […]

KISMET (kiz-met)

Kizmet It means fate, luck, providence, chance or divine will. I give up all sweets for Lent because it is very difficult for me to do so; over half of my consumed calories on any given day come from Hot Tamales, cakes, pies, cookies, jams or frozen desserts of some kind. My Girl Scout cookie investment showed […]

Is My Bias Showing? (Moving from Woke-ish to Woke)

That part of my career spent in HR has been filled with new learning about people. All kinds of people. One thing I have come to learn is that there is a huge difference between understanding something about another person’s experience and feeling what they feel. I can’t know how they feel about certain things […]

Why You Need Flexibility Not Disruption

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“We’re a small, disruptive team working to create products that consumers don’t even know they need.” “We want our workplace to be as unconventional as our products. We embrace disruption.” Ugh, what do these kinds of statements even mean? No wait, I’ve got this. When a company describes itself this way in corporate materials intended for customers, clients […]

5 Podcasts Business Owners Should Be Listening To

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Podcast consumption is growing rapidly. According to a study by Edison Research, Americans spend about 2% of their daily audio consumption time listening to podcasts. Also, according to Apple, there are over 250,000 different podcasts with over a billion subscribers. That’s amazing for a medium that’s really only been around for about a decade. I […]