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Nearly 8 Billion Souls on Board

BY ROWENA CROSBIE, president, Tero International

When an airplane is in distress, one of the first communications between the crew and air traffic control is to confirm the number of souls on board. 

They don’t …

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Designing for Health: Social Sports & Leisure Entertainment

By Jose Sanchez, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal, Mixed-Use Design Leader, DLR Group

Focus on physical and mental health has increased, leading to more retail mixed-use spaces dedicated to sports-oriented concepts, promoting familial and …

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Attracting and Retaining Talent

BY ROWENA CROSBIE, president, Tero International

One branch of behavioral economics seeks to understand how incentives influence behavior. In his excellent 2019 book titled “Loonshots,” author Safi Bahcall provides examples of how skewed financial incentives …

November BR Insights Vlog

Doing the Extraordinary

Jason Brown, Director of Advisor Success, Foster Group

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The label game

The Label Game

BY ROWENA CROSBIE, president, Tero International

Those sales people
Those engineers
Those IT people
Those executives
Those millennials
Those baby boomers

When you heard these group labels, what were you thinking? Did you feel defensive …

September BR Insights Blog

What Does It Mean to Be an Investor? – Part Two

Jason Brown, Director of Advisor Success, Foster Group

An investment, at least in the relational or social sense, is something that:

Involves our most precious resources – time, energy (creativity, emotion, work) and, often, money.…
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Do More With Less: Three Tips to Handle the Industrial Workforce Shortage

BY JEFF HAYES, Solution Consultant – Lifecycle Services, Van Meter Inc.

By 2025, it is expected that 2.7 million baby boomers will retire, and two million jobs will go unfilled. If this is correct, doing …

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What Motivates You To Do A Good Job?

BY ROWENA CROSBIE, president, Tero International

There are two types of motivation: internal and external. To understand the difference, reflect on this question: What motivates you to do a good job? 

If you’re like most …

2022 July BR Insights Blog

What Does It Mean to Be an Investor? – Part One

Jason Brown, Director of Advisor Success, Foster Group

For a minute, I want to think broadly about the question, “What does it mean to be an investor?”  

I’ve invested in my relationship with my …

Why is forgiveness so hard

Why is forgiveness so hard?

BY ROWENA CROSBIE, president, Tero International

Can you finish this sentence? To err is human, to …

Did you say, to forgive is divine?

“To err is human, to forgive is divine” is an old proverb …