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    Think You're Indestructible? So Did the Dinosaur!
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Nov 27, 2020
    • 1 min

    Think You're Indestructible? So Did the Dinosaur!

    Fact: Brand loyalty is developed when we are children and teens. Fact: Brands that don’t stay relevant with younger generations eventuall...
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    I Am Not Racist vs. I Am Anti-Racist
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Sep 4, 2020
    • 4 min

    I Am Not Racist vs. I Am Anti-Racist

    In 2020 is that it isn’t enough to say you are not racist; you need to be actively anti-racist.
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    Musings from the C-Suite: Rumors Now vs. Then
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Aug 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    Musings from the C-Suite: Rumors Now vs. Then

    A Millennial member of one of my networking groups for C-level women recently posted in our WhatsApp chat that women must stick together and
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    Musings from the C-Suite: Insights from a Blackout
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Aug 7, 2020
    • 3 min

    Musings from the C-Suite: Insights from a Blackout

    The power in my NYC neighborhood went out at 5:15 this morning. It was still dark out at that time, so it was pitch black in my apartment...
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    You May Be Right
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Jul 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    You May Be Right

    “You may be right” is a simple phrase that is not easy to say. Yet, it is one of the keys to successful communications.
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    In Their Own Words: For Some Gen Zers, the Value of a College Degree Is Murky
    Jordan Massey
    • Jul 10, 2020
    • 3 min

    In Their Own Words: For Some Gen Zers, the Value of a College Degree Is Murky

    For eighteen years now, people have been telling me about the importance of going to college, so I really wanted to know, “What is the po...
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    Dismantling a Culture of Complicity
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Jun 19, 2020
    • 3 min

    Dismantling a Culture of Complicity

    A lot of people are asking HOW they can help. Some people are in positions of power and know how they can help. Some know they come from ...
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    Brands Have Personalities: They Should Respond to Crises Like People Do
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • May 14, 2020
    • 3 min

    Brands Have Personalities: They Should Respond to Crises Like People Do

    One of the things I love about being an author and thought leader in the area of business communications is giving corporate talks. This w...
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    How Can You Influence People During a Crisis? Part 3
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • May 5, 2020
    • 3 min

    How Can You Influence People During a Crisis? Part 3

    I spent that past six week in self-isolation writing and publishing a new book, “Communicating During a Crisis: Influencing Others When t...
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    How Can You Influence People During a Crisis? Part 2
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Apr 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    How Can You Influence People During a Crisis? Part 2

    Last week, I blogged about the art of influencing people. In part one of this three-part series, I discussed the importance of first unde...
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    How Can You Influence People During a Crisis? Part 1
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Apr 9, 2020
    • 3 min

    How Can You Influence People During a Crisis? Part 1

    You know how difficult it is to get a dog into the vet's office in that moment when he realizes that he's about to enter the vet's office...
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    What We Can Expect from Our Minds During Self-Isolation
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Apr 2, 2020
    • 3 min

    What We Can Expect from Our Minds During Self-Isolation

    Human beings can handle absolutely anything in the moment; it is the thinking about it that makes it a problem.
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    Physical Distancing with Social Connection
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Mar 31, 2020
    • 2 min

    Physical Distancing with Social Connection

    #Socialdistancing is not precisely what we are doing… and that is not a bad thing. What we are doing is physically distancing while...
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    Shift Happens, So Why Is Change Hard?
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Mar 24, 2020
    • 3 min

    Shift Happens, So Why Is Change Hard?

    When people are in the midst of a crisis, they say things like, “Did that only happen two days ago? It seems like a month went by!"
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    Communicating with Constituents During the Coronavirus Crisis
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Mar 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    Communicating with Constituents During the Coronavirus Crisis

    As a crisis communications specialist, I have been talking with nonprofit organizations in the past few days about how to communicate wit...
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    4 Must-Do's in the Multigenerational Workplace
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Mar 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    4 Must-Do's in the Multigenerational Workplace

    Blog about 4 things companies can do to facilitate multigenerational understanding and collaboration.
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    Millennials Don’t Job Hop as Much as You Think They Do
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Mar 4, 2020
    • 2 min

    Millennials Don’t Job Hop as Much as You Think They Do

    Blog post about Millennial job hopping, which is not as frequent as we think it is.
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    Never Fail to Fail: The Different Work Philosophies of Millennials and Gen Z
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Feb 19, 2020
    • 1 min

    Never Fail to Fail: The Different Work Philosophies of Millennials and Gen Z

    For companies, understanding Millennials and Gen Z workers is more and more vital by the day. But just how similar—or different—are these...
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    Everything Immediately: Three Key Expectations of Millennials and Gen Z
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Feb 12, 2020
    • 2 min

    Everything Immediately: Three Key Expectations of Millennials and Gen Z

    Gen Z—and to a somewhat lesser extent, Millennials—have grown up in a world where virtually everything is available immediately on demand...
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    When Millennials Manage Gen Z
    Joanna Dodd Massey
    • Feb 5, 2020
    • 3 min

    When Millennials Manage Gen Z

    I mentor several younger women who work in a variety of fields, including management consulting, communications, software development, an...
    103 views0 comments
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