Ideas for Online Team Building Activities

Here are a few tried-and-tested fantastic options for teambuilding events and activities for distributed workforces.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 19, 2020distributed workforce, employees, leadershipComment

Creative and Cool Stuff on the Web: Issue Two

Ready for issue two of creative and cool stuff discovered on the web this month?

JournalLeslie FarnsworthAugust 12, 2020creative and cool stuff Comments

Month-in-Review Highlights: July 2020

When it comes to my activity related to 2020 objectives, I finished the month of July feeling a little low in terms of accomplishment.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthAugust 5, 2020postmortem, business, coronavirus diaries, goals Comments

Brittany, Hospitality, and the Spider Crab Sacrifice

When we got across the lane to our kitchen, I explained to Arnaud that I don’t really like crabs. However, we couldn’t very well take them back.

WanderingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 30, 2020France, travel, food Comments

Finding the Intersection of Creativity and Effectiveness in Marketing

The overlap in the creativity-effectiveness Venn diagram exists: It just takes a little more expertise and ingenuity to find it.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 28, 2020culture, marketing, business Comments

Bad with Plants

Maybe it really wanted to live, this plant. And maybe I felt a modicum of flattery that it hadn’t yet tried to off itself.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJuly 23, 2020 Comments

Your Opinions Represent Your Employer

You don’t need to assume a leadership role in organizations or groups to represent the group by what you say and what you do.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 21, 2020culture, social media, leadershipComment

Essay about the Coronavirus Diaries Appears in The Johns Hopkins University Magazine

My essay about the coronavirus diaries project went live in the Summer 2020 issue of The Johns Hopkins University magazine.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 16, 2020coronavirus diaries, cultureComment

Creative and Cool Stuff on the Web: Issue One

To catalog fun sites and creative finds from across the wide world of today’s Internet, I’ve decided to issue a monthly post collating links to great finds on the web.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJuly 14, 2020creative and cool stuffComment

How Companies Benefit from Distributed Work

Research shows that working in a corporate office hinders rather than helps quality work. Let’s enumerate the six top financial benefits of distributed workforces to companies.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 9, 2020distributed workforce, leadership, management, hiring, happinessComment

Month-in-Review Highlights: June 2020

A theme for the month, if not a theme for the global moment: We need to make sustained efforts, even on different-than-expected paths, to reach our desired destinations.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJuly 7, 2020postmortem, goals, culture, fitnessComment

Self-Reliance and Self-Confidence: On the Power of Independence

You gain a heady feeling of confidence when you know that you can rely on yourself and that you can do what needs to be done without anyone else.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 4, 2020culture, happiness Comments

Books I've Read: Q2 2020

For the readers among us, here’s a list of books I read in the second quarter of 2020, with my favorites bolded as recommendations.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthJuly 1, 2020reading, literature, booksComment

How Search Engines and Social Media Have Reshaped Website Content

On today’s bifurcated web, search engines answer questions efficiently and effectively and social media provides the entertainment. Needs met. Game over.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJune 25, 2020writing, cultureComment

How to Transition to Working from Home Permanently

If you face working away from the traditional office for the long term, you’ll need patience and time for adjustment. Here are a few experience-based tips to help you make the transition.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJune 23, 2020happiness, culture, management, leadership, distributed workforceComment

Happiness and the Routine-to-Frantic Spectrum

Research encourages adding a little spice of variety to your life, if you can find it not too far from your comfort zone.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJune 18, 2020coronavirus diaries, happiness, travelComment

COVID-19 Proves Nothing about Working from Home

No one can possibly imagine that what we experienced working from home during COVID-19 provided a true litmus test for working remotely on the employer, manager, or employer sides.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJune 16, 2020employees, management, leadership, distributed workforceComment

Three Ideas for Multicultural and Destination Weddings

Need new and creative ideas for your multicultural, bilingual, or destination wedding? Here are three fun ideas based on my own experience.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJune 11, 2020wedding, cultureComment