Remember Phone Calls?
Relationships are the real currency of business. Remote work, digital workflows and calendar-stuffed days eliminate the small moments that build trust.
You can run a company on Slack and Zoom, sure, but you cannot build loyalty without shared time and real conversation. We miss the days when phones rang on the desk and we didn’t know who was on the other line. When you walked down the hall with an idea and a mission to share it.
Leaders create intentional space for connection. Teams need to know the work, but also each other.
What We Lose With Remote Work—and How to Minimize the Damage
Genuine relationships, trust, and camaraderie. It’s kind of important.
“With trust, cultural support, and clarity about workplace changes in an age of AI, leaders can boost employee motivation while igniting reinvention and growth.”
“Chatbots are empathetic and accessible, but they can sometimes be wrong. What happens when you ask them for medical advice?”
White House Explores Rules That Would Upend Shareholder Voting
“Officials discuss executive order to limit influential proxy advisers including ISS and index-fund giants such as BlackRock”
“Though public nakedness isn’t completely gone, many of the everyday spots where Americans once encountered unclothed bodies—locker rooms, school showers, public pools, bathhouses—have either vanished or shifted away from collective nudity.”
SpeedStudio Podcast:
Ep. 114 – Johnny Person, Founder and CEO of Aug11
This week’s episode, we welcome our friend Johnny Person into the Studio. We chat about walking five wide on the Beltline, what makes up a FRED, run club culture in ATL, living life in such an active city, running fashion brands, what’s driving design for the 25-35 year old guy, and why the brands getting the attention aren’t the ones everyone is wearing. We also go deep on how it’s hard to find good jeans, how pricing strategy in apparel is impacted by advertising on Meta, explaining the wild west of TikTok shop, the importance of being tapped into culture, brands as world builders, Hotel Corazon, and how hard it is the execute (everyone’s got ideas). Lastly, we get his vision for the future of Aug11, and does half-wheeling exist in running? (spoiler alert: it does).
This is a full-throttle episode. Everywhere you get podcasts.