Assume Positive Intent

Assume Positive Intent

If I’m ever asked to share one piece of business advice – just one – it would be Assume positive intent. If I’m ever asked to share one piece of personal life wisdom, it would be the same thing: Assume positive intent. I’ve called the approach different things over...
PANDEMIC EPISTEMIC 

PANDEMIC EPISTEMIC 

COVID-19 – Impact on small business   Jo Buchanan, March 2020   COVID-19 itself needs no introduction, but we do need to talk about it’s potential and impending impact on small business.  This virus is surprising for the transmission and...
Hysteric Esoteric

Hysteric Esoteric

My colleague sent me this message today: “Can you grant permissions to Zapier for my Teams account? I’m going to try to see if we can send to the US Slack channel” There’s no issue with the request, or how I would manage it, but when I read this...
The Fitness of Business

The Fitness of Business

Can the business of fitness teach the fitness of business anything? The fitness of business. Is it so different from the business of fitness? I don’t think so. Having been proudly involved in both, I can say they correlate in more ways than you think. This week we...
Fear & Success

Fear & Success

We’ve recently had an expert sales consultant and long-time friend of Castaway visit our workplace to complete an internal sales health check for us. In the process of reviewing and improving our practices and methodology, he reinforced that results are produced where...