Jan Radcliff
I turned my own technology hobbies into a small sideline business, and have built around me an environment filled with social adventures and business opportunities. As the Founder and CEO of Radcliff Design (www.radcliffdesign.com), I work with clients in the areas of content design and writing services. I am the author of two books: Business as Usual, Technology as Usual, and have a third book that I am currently working on.
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Public Health Eating Disaster
Are You A Public Health Eating Disaster Just how far have our appetites taken us, and what happens in the event of an unforeseen major disaster? Is sugar in the details? Are “we” the disaster? Are we caught up in a Public Health Eating Disaster? How do we incorporate eating sugar in moderation? Sugar, we are told it can be “good for the soul” by all the ads and marketing jiggles being filtered into our daily lives. Moderation is the key, but what if you are an eating disaster? Some days I’m an eating disaster! I have really good days; heck, I even have really good weeks. But then there…
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Creative and Inspirational People
Creative people have a deep respect for the very essence of everything around them. It is as if they have a thirst for all things new and exciting. Who wouldn't want to be around a creative and inspirational person? They are uplifting, kind, and filled with a wonder for life. They can light up a room by just walking in with a smile on their face. They are usually highly intelligent in their own right and don't flaunt it unless challenged in a negative way. They will bring you strawberries in winter, and sprinkle glitter on your papers just to make you smile. They draw you out of your head and make you think…
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What battles should we fight
Dedicated to my class who asked the question"what battles should we fight, and can we bring duck tape?" We have all been there. That place and time when the information we are hearing is just too good. Emphasis on "too good". Red hot sizzling information that can make or break a situation, a person's reputation, or put honestly - damage our own social integrity. By your own social integrity that refers to you or someone in your circle that has no filter on what they think, and tend to blurt out every little tiny detail that they know for the whole world to hear. As innocent as the act might seem to some, in fact it…
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The Interview “Looks like a nice person, has a Twitter page”
The Interview “Looks like a nice person, has a Twitter page” For many who have been working professionals for most of their lives, it is often anticipated with some anxiety that those interviewing them ‘may not know how to interview them’. When you go into an interview and in two quick responses you have pretty much summed up the entire list of questions the interviewer had prepared, you quickly are able to gauge the aptitude of that business or organization. While those giving the interview have thought well and hard on their lists – you still manage to blow that list out of the water. What’s left for the interviewer?…
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Put Your Busy Bully On Notice
Nearly every office has one, that person who for some reason keeps things stirred up. Whether it is a need for power or control, who knows? What they manage to do is have others begin to doubt their own skills and abilities. I like to think of these individuals as passive aggressive bullies, or my own naming convention of “The Busy Bully”. They don’t come right out and say something to another person in the office; rather they are busy gossiping or hinting around to others that “they know a secret”. They are also constantly second-guessing other co-workers true intentions and often believe others are talking about them behind their…
