Category Archives: Gen Y

• Wanna Test Drive My Job?

  Posted on February 13, 2009 by jaywalk1 in Gen Y, PR, Public Relations, Work

  Nope. Sorry. This is not my offer for you to be me for the day. Hope the title wasn’t misleading! Seriously though, Test Drive My Job is the name of a series done by Blogger/Journalist/PR pro Amanda Miller Littlejohn (@amandamogul). Check me and some of her other profiles out on her blog Mopwater PR + [...]

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  Tell Me Something Good: The 56th Presidential Inauguration

  Posted on January 21, 2009 by jaywalk1 in Gen Y, Public Relations, Thoughts

  On January 20th, I braved the cold at 6:45 am to go see the 56th Presidential Inauguration. Being the PR/Comms guy I am, I experienced several communication hiccups along the way and found myself wanting someone to tell me something good. The weekend had already been great with a viewing of Notorious, witnessing people trying [...]

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  SMH Harvard! SMH…

  Posted on December 17, 2008 by jaywalk1 in Diversity, Gen Y, Thoughts

    This week Harvard Business Review writer Rosabeth  Moss Kanter posted a piece titled “Top 10 Ways Obama Can Change American Culture” which left me shaking my head. Kanter was off to a great start: “In the transition to the Obama administration, I have been interviewed by old and new media about President-Elect Obama’s stimulus package, [...]

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  Procrastination Demystified Finally…I think…

  Posted on December 8, 2008 by jaywalk1 in Gen Y, PR, Resource, Thoughts

        The Telegraph out of the UK posted a story today titled “Academics invent a mathematical equation for why people procrastinate.” In it, writer Urmee Khan  reports on Prof Piers Steel, a Canadian academic who has spent over a decade looking into why people put off until tomorrow what they could do today. Acoording [...]

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