Brand Management is a concept widely discussed in the business world.  Companies invest a great deal of time and money into managing their brands.  We can learn from this marketing strategy when it comes to managing our own, personal “brand” while looking to make a career move. The purpose of Brand Management is to increase […]

You may have heard the phrase, “Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.”  While I have a personal tendency to do this, I don’t feel it serves me as well as a different approach that I’m trying to embody lately instead: Assume the best. When we try to “prepare for the worst”, our […]

I just finished a fascinating book called The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg. Everything we do in our life is a series of habits. Once we recognize that “it’s all habit”, it makes it believable that habits can change. Think about when you first […]

Welcome to the first Friday of the New Year! Did anyone else set New Year’s resolutions, only to waver by the end of the first week? (My younger brother shared with me that he went to the gym on 1/1 and it was packed. The next day, hardly anyone was there.) It happens to the […]

Traditionally around the holidays, Team Cadre sends out a cheery holiday message to its clients and employees. Just as we personally like to receive holiday wishes and messages from friends and family, it is also fun to share the love from a business perspective. One of our former external employees responded back to our holiday […]

I had a conversation recently about “seven-year business cycles”, and while macroeconomics is not my jam :o) it got me thinking about whether or not every seven years in one’s personal life could be looked at similarly. It is an interesting scenario to contemplate. Although everyone’s life cycles are different, more often than not, we […]

I learned a new word today, thanks to my brother. :o) I wasn’t sure how to do a Google search for my question, so I sent him something I’d written whilst in the throes of 2020 and asked, “is there a ‘name’ for this type of writing, when you use the first letter for a […]

Does anyone feel as though they need a vacation after a very busy July? :o) I personally consider July to be the best month of the year, as it is filled with many celebratory days: Cadre’s anniversary, my birthday, my wedding anniversary and several family reunions, to name a few. Coupled with the fabulous Wisconsin […]

Today represents a personal milestone:  I have officially spent half of my life at Cadre! Even though it is hard for me to believe, it is true.  Cadre has been a part of my life for half of my life.  We opened our doors in 1994, when I was 27! Cadre (then known as Premier […]

Most of you know by now that I am a huge Marvel / superhero nerd. :o) My husband and I recently decided to re-watch Deadpool. Early in the movie, the title character says the following: Life is an endless series of train wrecks with only brief, commercial-like breaks of happiness. At first glance, it is […]