by JJ Crass | Oct 13, 2023 | Newsletter
Small Business or House of Cards? As my daddy used to say, Lordamercy — what a week! Does your business have those weeks? Weeks where you think you’re on solid ground, moving forward and then some crazy thing happens and suddenly it feels like a house of...
by JJ Crass | Sep 27, 2023 | Newsletter
Coworking: The Social Solution In an informal poll on LinkedIn, 34% of the respondents said they often felt lonely. In 2018, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that 60 million Americans often or always felt lonely or isolated — and that was before the...
by JJ Crass | Aug 18, 2023 | Newsletter
When I’m looking for inspiration, I often take a walk through our tGSO garden. Its beauty rarely fails me, and today was no different. I was thinking about how unsuited I am for networking, which is a major component of any business. I’m that person in the...
by JJ Crass | Jul 17, 2023 | Newsletter
Be Authentic: Help us build a fun place to work where we can share our interests and talents. Shante’ and I recently had the pleasure of speaking to the Rotary Club of Greensboro about transform GSO, and while we talked about all the obvious things, like...
by JJ Crass | Jun 20, 2023 | Newsletter
Juneteenth? Hunh? I think I’ve mentioned one or 25 times that I was born and raised in Houston, TX. If you already know about Juneteenth, then you’ll understand why, when I was living in Minnesota in my late 20s, I was gobsmacked to discover that hardly...
by JJ Crass | May 16, 2023 | Newsletter
The Art Lounge @ Bain: A Passion Project I’ve just passed my one year anniversary as Executive Director of transform GSO, and if you’ve spent more than five minutes with me in the past year, you probably have heard me drone on about my...