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I’m not proud to admit it, but when I used to hear the words “core values," “mission statements," and “corporate visions” I would have to stifle a smirk. Most likely unfairly, I would envision people in business suits sitting around a conference room with a white...

I can’t remember exactly when I got the little trim-sized book of Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson, but I remember always including it in moving boxes as I moved from St. Louis to Manhattan to Brooklyn back to Manhattan to Jersey City… it has an...

Recently I posted an update on my LinkedIn profile saying “The Boedeker Group is growing and hiring new freelance market development, marketing and sales professionals” and linked to the job descriptions that listed in detail the kind of...

Today I dropped my almost-4 year old at Pre-K4 for the start of her 2017-2018 school year. I know I’m not alone. There are a lot of us going through back-to-school drop-offs and pick-ups all across the country if we haven’t already gone through...

You only have one chance to make a first impression. That was the exact sentence I shared with one of my clients last week. “You never get a second chance to make a first impression - and I’m afraid you’re going to waste it if you move forward...

After 15 years working in educational publishing and ed tech I did something today I have never done. I was the acting principal at a public elementary and middle school in Jersey City through the "Principal for the Day" community program that...

Post-Mortems have gotten a bad rap. Caling it a “post-mortem” certainly doesn´t help - any kind of meeting that conjures up an image of a bluish-gray corpse lying under abrasive lighting in an all-white room on a stainless steel table could...