ProActive Communications is looking for smart, creative, ambitious and detail-oriented students or recent graduates interested in a challenging and rewarding internship experience. ProActive interns join a dynamic team of communications professionals and gain real-world, hands-on experience in a fast-paced enterprise. The selected candidate or candidates will work in close collaboration with the ProActive team to […]
“The craft of your career comes in picking the right hills. Hills just challenging enough that you can barely make it over. A series of hills becomes a mountain, and a series of mountains is a career.” – Seth Godin, Author When we turn away from challenges, or we feel that we don’t have any […]
Penn State’s PR Crisis Like all of America, I was shocked to hear of the widespread child sex abuse caused by former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky. Penn State, after all, was looked at as a model for what college athletics should be, and led by one of the most respected men in all […]
Bloomberg has one. Netflix has one. HTC has one. There’s a magazine for and about them. At the time of this writing Forbes contributor Chris Perry’s recent article about the Chief Content Officer role had been shared on Twitter 675 times, Google+ 38 times, Facebook 220 times, LinkedIn 2787 times, Reddit five times, and StumbleUpon […]
Visionary risk-taking and pragmatic thinking define the leadership of Virginia Rometty, IBM’s first female CEO. “Really early, early in my career, I can remember being offered a big job,” she said. “Right away I said, ‘You know what? I’m not ready for this job.” When she told her husband, he asked “Do you think a […]
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Oprah, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg. Some people hear these names and think… the luckiest people in the world. And they may be lucky. But there’s little doubt that they are also incredibly hard-working individuals that followed their ideals rather than settle for the status quo. BNET Contributor and How They Did […]
The Chinese Zodiac does not have a sign for it, but this week marks the start of the “Year of the Entrepreneur” at ProActive Communications. At the recent ProActive Communications Leadership Training Week guest speaker Rick “Doc” Walker, the former Super Bowl Champion of the Washington Redskins, remarked that an entrepreneur can be described as […]
Just last week, the ProActive Communications team met for our twice annual leadership training session. The theme of the winter 2010 session was “Entrepreneurialism.” Over the course of four days, a fun group of smart, innovative people met to discuss ways that we can all be more entrepreneurial in our daily lives, both in and […]
They said that there is no place like home for the holidays, but the holidays can be both a joyous and hectic time for all of us. From a social media perspective this can be a curse and blessing, just because the holidays are here does not mean that our social lives stop. From tweets […]