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Working remotely has given me tons of flexibility and a true work life balance, but nothing beats the energy of connecting face-to-face with this amazing team - proof that great collaboration transcends Teams chats and Wi-Fi! 💻✨ #RemoteWorkLife #TeamConnection #marketresearch

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Excellent training for dispatchers.

So many emotions this morning. Last night was nothing short of amazing. Beginning my second year of Presidency of the Knoxville Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute, we kicked the year off with our annual Awards Gala. My first time as president, back in 07-08, I was "in the middle" of everything surrounding the Gala...helping with design, signage, events, you name it. This time around, it was the opposite. Total opposite. Between the lingering effects of my cancer battle, the demands of the new job and the overload of moving my mother home from Florida, I had less than zero bandwidth to deal with any of it. Even worse, I've been so far on overload that a LOT of these kinds of details aren't even on my radar until it's too late. Enter the incredible tribe of friends that is my CSI Chapter. Amazing people like Geoffrey Cavalier, AIA, CSI, who has helped me stay focused, on task and kept me sane at times when I just wanted to walk away. Lauretta Cocke, one of my mentees back the first time around, who now is doing an amazing job with the City of Knoxville Codes Office. The biggest two names are my two rocks...the Dynamic Duo of our Chapter, Kathy Proctor and Suzan Jordan, who did a simply masterful job of...well...EVERYTHING with regard to pulling our event together and making it a success. People often ask me how hard it is to be a Chapter President and the answer is "it is not". The role of the President is to see the vision of the future, design the path and then hand out the strategic tasks while being a cheerleader. The rest will just magically happen. Not really "brain surgery"...just caring for your people and letting them care for you in return. And in all of my career, I've never seen such an incredible outpouring of support as what I witnessed last night. As I said on my FB post, I'm humbled. Incredibly. Let's make this next year a huge success. Let's roll, Pop. #CSI #leadership #team

Announcing the new Center for Business Champions! 🎉 We’re excited to launch a new center supporting national partnerships between business and child development leaders. With the right support, leaders can work together to invest resources that put children on the path to success, support parents’ productivity on the job, and make their communities attractive places to live, work, and invest. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eAFY6m_p Image description: A yellow and blue graphic with text that says, "Announcing the launch of the new Center for Business Champions."

Analytics are important in all industries #🐻⬇️

Perimeter’s 25-year retrospective begins with chapter one: inspiration! “I knew that if it were possible, it would put us in a position to change the world, increase the reputation of our country, and could be a boon for future industry and wealth creation,” Mike Lazaridis says. Read more to know how it all began and stay tuned as we explore PI’s history, present, and exciting future in celebration of our 25th anniversary! https://hubs.ly/Q030kSvs0

Looking forward to the forum at Newlab with Satish Rao, Vince Romanin, and Ely Greenberg tomorrow! Building hardware-enabled sustainability companies is no easy feat - we have the burden and delight of tracking carbon economics right alongside all the usual metrics. But, if you can pull it off, the carbon impact makes it pretty easy to get up and get to work in the morning...we're at tens of thousands of tons and counting of CO2e.

Daily dose of Optimism: As Peter Ducker said, "The best way to create the future is to build the future". At The Earthshot Prize, we believe in the power of creativity and innovation to create the future. We believe in people around the world reclaiming agency over their future and fixing the world, one solution at a time. We believe in the game-changers, the change-makers, the creators, the builders, the dreamers and the do-ers. Because of them, we wake up daily with optimism about the future they're creating for all of us. We also wake up each day with a renewed sense of urgency. Time is ticking and history is being written. We must all go faster, bigger, braver and bolder. This is our singular call to action to those with influence and capital: Speed solutions to scale. Because the innovators can create the future, but together, we need to speed the future towards us faster than ever before. And that is a collective endeavour requiring more courage and collaboration than ever before. Thank you to our incredible Founding Partners Bloomberg Philanthropies for hosting and convening courageous conversations with incredible people. Thank you to everyone who has said yes to joining us on the 24th. Together we are a movement for change and action.

What happens when we ask our founders 23 questions to celebrate 23 years in the biz? Plenty of laughs, memories… and, of course, a little bit of chaos. We're celebrating the moments that have shaped who we are as we look ahead to some big things in the new year. 🎬 Watch the full chat with our founders over on our YouTube: https://lnkd.in/egQbpfTQ