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Keeping Your Organization’s New Year’s Resolutions

Each January millions of people around the world make resolutions to help them live a better life throughout the year. Common resolutions include goals to improve health and wellness, financial status and even reconciling relationships. As a small business owner or nonprofit leader, it is likely that your New Year’s resolutions are not just for your personal […]

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Tips for Beating Procrastination

Cutting the grass, ironing clothes, writing a ten page English paper, starting a home improvement project, replying to emails…these are actions that require energy, strategy and drive. We have all procrastinated a time or two, but the goal of being productive is to steer clear from cycles of serial-procrastination. Procrastination is an avoidance behavior. It […]

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2013: The P.E.R.K. Consulting Year in Review

With the recent passing of Nelson Mandela, I joined most of the world in mourning a life lost, but celebrating a life lived to the fullest. As South Africa’s first black president, and an anti-Apartheid and civil rights icon, there is no doubt that history will remember Mandela as one of the greatest men who […]

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Write Like a Man

The first class I ever taught was an Intro to Political Science course at Howard University. It stands out because of a conversation I had after class with a few of my female students. “So tell me,” I asked, “what’s one of the most valuable lessons you’ve learned this semester?” “Write like a man,” the […]

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