Shaping Her Own Brand – You Need to Hear Morgan Wade

David Langston Culture, Free, Your Brand Leave a Comment

Morgan Wade is not a band. Morgan Wade is a woman, a singer-songwriter, and an artist. When you see her, being able to really hear her voice, her lyrics, and her delivery is the whole deal. That’s the experience. Morgan the singer with a poignant, lingering presence. The lyricist with evocative phrases you have never heard before, she reproduces real-life …

Samuel Hawley Battles the Past – and the Present

David Langston Culture, Free Leave a Comment

A hardened career criminal and seasoned murderer is not a guy I can admire. So why did I identify so closely with him? “The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley,” a new novel by Hannah Tinti, tells the story of a modern-day criminal on a terrifying mission to clean up everything from his past. A TIME review described it as, “Hercules …

“What’s the ‘Truth’?”

David Langston Culture, Free, Uncategorized Leave a Comment

A recent article about Chuck Berry in Rolling Stone gave me hope we can see a renewed commitment to truth in journalism. Certainly what’s happened in mainstream media in the last year has been unsettling. Reading this article showed me that, despite the challenges of weaving together the extreme highs and lows of Berry’s life, the author, Mikal Gilmore, was …

The Rhythm of Employer-Employee Relationships

Melody J. Cortez PHR Culture, Free Leave a Comment

I’m a people person by nature, so when I got into human resources 18 years ago, and later into critical internal communications, I knew I had found my calling. HR has become more complicated since then (think healthcare reform, multigenerational workforce and the impact of technology on employee communications, to name a few), but the fundamentals are the same. There …