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Why We Need to Stop Calling Them Soft Skills

Why We Need to Stop Calling Them Soft Skills

You just graduated at the top of your class from the most prestigious pastry school in all of France. Forbes listed you as one of the top 30 culinary stars under 30, and you can make macarons blindfolded with your arms tied behind your back. What’s next? You decide to...

Why Your Community Needs Internal Allies

Why Your Community Needs Internal Allies

Here’s a complete hypothetical: Imagine you’re at Google HQ, and a Google team lead greets you at the main entrance. She starts talking about all the cool things they’re doing at Google and how Excel has made her team’s productivity skyrocket. Wait, did she say Excel?...

To Be a Good Leader, Become a Better Servant

To Be a Good Leader, Become a Better Servant

https://youtu.be/MbZWzuFiFUI Good leaders come in all shapes and sizes, yet they aren’t always easy to find. If you’re interested in pursuing leadership roles—and not everyone is—it’s important to start by asking yourself why you want to be a leader. Is it because you...

How Can Community Help Your Organization?

How Can Community Help Your Organization?

As communities continue to pop up, grow, and spread around the world, businesses are becoming more aware of the advantages that engaging authentically with a community can bring. While some organizations — like Microsoft, Apple, and even LoCoSports — have supportive...

Social Media Isn’t the Problem

Social Media Isn’t the Problem

On occasion, student-athletes get their scholarships revoked because of their actions on social media. In 2014, a couple of Division I football coaches publicly dropped a pair of recruits because of things the recruits had posted online. Fast forward four years, and...

Why I Took the Time to Turn On Two-Factor Authentication

Why I Took the Time to Turn On Two-Factor Authentication

For the past few years, my dad has been encouraging me to turn on two-factor authentication (2FA) on any service that offers it. Having grown up in the social media age, I felt his requests were unwarranted. I know social media inside and out (and I have a master’s...