Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 247 The A through Z of Success Attributes Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 247

I’m a fan of the use of acronyms as they are fun to create and help us better memorize key concepts. Here are a few I previously published: Cyber Strategy Success Get Noticed Have You Smacked Your Clients Lately? In the spirit of such acronyms, here is The A through Z of Success Attributes: Create Adventures that encourage exploration and future innovation. Take a Bold stance. If Content is the king, then provocative content is the ace. Invest in your...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 246 Shana Tova – Happy New Year Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 246

I wrote last week’s newsletter as an offshoot of my recent fear and frustration at having my Florida family, especially my little grandkids, huddling for hours in a closet under their stairs to protect them from Irma’s wrath. Though I offered them safe passage to Cleveland, they followed the orders of their municipality to be prepared and stay put. I couldn’t control the situation at all. My fear for them suddenly reignited my struggle with our son’s addiction that I...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 245 We Remain Powerless… Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 245

Last week I devoted my article to the reality that we can’t always control a situation and need to have backup plans. As hard as we try and as prepared as we think we may be, the bottom line is that many situations and events are out of our hands and beyond our control. We witnessed the devastation that hurricane Harvey unleashed on Texas and its residents only to have Mother Nature’s wrath rein down days later on Florida and...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 244 When Plan B is Not Good Enough! Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 244

Last Friday night, shortly after midnight, I received an urgent text from one of our champion’s team members: “Houston, we have a huge problem!” he said. What was supposed to be routine dedicated server maintenance, the server, which hosts our site and that of hundreds of our clients, revealed a major malfunction with one of our mirrored disk drives. And as if this was not enough, we also discovered some serious issues with the server hardware. Our dedicated server is...

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