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May 22, 2019 - Another Stupid Idea - JVH, Parking Today - I have been musing about how cities can make parking more attractive to ...

May 21, 2019 - In with a BANG! Out with a Whimper - JVH, Parking Today - The Big Bang Theory is no more. The last episode aired this ...

May 20, 2019 - Do we simply roll over and accept things on face value? - JVH, Parking Today - I’m in the parking business. People around me are complaining that the future ...

May 16, 2019 - Looking for happiness? Try purpose instead - sense of purpose is the key to a whole host of health outcomes. I’ll just ...

May 15, 2019 - Wonder In The Workplace: How Curiosity Can Prepare Us For The Future Of Work - Overconfidence is not only often driven by insufficient consideration of unknown evidence; it actually drives poor decision ...

May 14, 2019 - Uber's CEO teaches a master class in emotionally intelligent leadership--in a few, short paragraphs - To motivate others, you have to stir their emotions and build their ...

May 14, 2019 - Call for Speakers = PIE 2020 - JVH, Parking Today - The theme for PIE 2020 is The Parking Experience. How do we as an ...

May 13, 2019 - How to Keep a Beginner’s Mind at Work - Don’t you love to be around people who see the world with fresh delight and ...

May 10, 2019 - On the Road — Israel - JVH, Parking Today - I’m attending the Israeli Conference on Parking Traffic and Transportation being held next Wednesday ...

May 9, 2019 - The 10 Commitments for Excellence in Business - a business cannot succeed without passionate, focused ...

May 9, 2019 - Data is King! Technology Rules! Smart Parking is the Future! - JVH, Parking Today - These and like buzzwords are pervasive in our industry. Whether its at trade event ...

May 7, 2019 - To Be an Extraordinary Achiever, Commit to Daily Excellence - Excellence is about waking up each morning and declaring that you will do your best at everything you ...

May 6, 2019 - Danger, Will Robinson, Danger - JVH, Parking Today - When Robot B9 spoke those words to Will in the ancient series Lost in ...

May 6, 2019 - Redefining Excellence for Today's World - Excellence reveals itself in the language you use, the questions you ask, the people you surround yourself with, and how you interact ...

May 3, 2019 - UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXCELLENT AND EXCELLENCE - Excellence is an attitude where you are willing to always give and try your ...

April 30, 2019 - Smartphone shutdown: Professor challenges students to put phones away for 2 days - A couple of them, including the professor, got parking tickets because they didn't have the parking app to feed the meter ...

April 26, 2019 - Marcy Sparrow Heads Parking Industry Expo - JVH, Parking Today - Parking Today Sales Director Marcy Sparrow has found ...

April 26, 2019 - Federal Court Outlaws Chalking – But Whose Fault is it? - JVH, Parking Today - A federal court in the Midwest has ruled that chalking is no longer legal in five midwestern ...

April 26, 2019 - Tech brings out the worst in us. What if it was designed to bring out the best? - “While we’ve been upgrading the machines, we’ve been downgrading our humanity,” ...

April 25, 2019 - What Happened to Taxis - JVH, Parking Today - Taxis have existed since the 1700s. They are ubiquitous in major cities ...

April 22, 2019 - We’ve Not Been Truly Challenged - JVH, Parking Today - Bricks and Mortar retailers are under attack. On line ...

April 18, 2019 - EVs need to stand on their own! - JVH, Parking Today - The venerable George Will reports that government subsidies are ...

April 17, 2019 - Micromanaging from On High - JVH, Parking Today - I found an article over on parknews.biz about the city of Destin, FL. It ...

April 16, 2019 - Will Congestion Pricing mean the End to Parking Garages in New York City? - JVH, Parking Today - New York City is moving relentlessly toward Congestion Pricing. The ...

April 16, 2019 - What Would Happen if there were no Cars? - JVH, Parking Today - Kim Fernandez over at the IPMI commented on a survey taken in the UK that showed that 44% ...

April 15, 2019 - How Is Direct Mail Still Effective? - Paul Miller, Parking Today - Direct mail marketing is one of the oldest marketing techniques on the books. With all the ...

April 15, 2019 - This is how your emotional fears are ruining your career - considerable effort has been put into creating a culture of candor, learning, and innovation that ...

April 11, 2019 - I got a Letter - JVH, Parking Today - Receiving an actual letter does present a problem. Now I have to answer it. Once I ...

April 11, 2019 - The most powerful woman at Amazon - Connections, asks every Amazon employee to answer a workplace-related question in the morning, giving the company ...

April 10, 2019 - Waze is Wonderful Except… - JVH, Parking Today - Waze is an app that helps you find ways around traffic jams. Silicon ...

April 10, 2019 - An Obsession - JVH, Parking Today - What is our obsession with background music. It occurred to me that something was ...

April 9, 2019 - TaaS – Mobility and the Urban Family — HAH! - JVH, Parking Today - There is an interesting article in Forbes this week titled ...

April 9, 2019 - The Brits do it up Proud at Parkex. - JVH, Parking Today - PN editor Astrid and I spent last week in the UK attending ...

April 8, 2019 - Google asked 5,600 employees about remote work. This is what they learned - making time for team members across the globe to get to know one another. She thinks ...

March 26, 2019 - Great Parking Not Worth a Housing Crisis - JVH, Parking Today - I saw this headline over on Park News and I went ballistic. Parking gets blamed for everything from ...

March 25, 2019 - Elements Of An Effective Workplace Mental Health Strategy - Creating a “culture of care” - Helping employees ask for ...

March 22, 2019 - Stress and Uncertainty of Finding Parking - JVH, Parking Today - Researchers have determined that Uber and Lyft have reduced the number of people ...

March 21, 2019 - Its Time to Sell the Bananas - JVH, Parking Today - The Parking Industry must adapt to changing times. We must become ...

March 20, 2019 - A PIE 2019 FLY BY — IP Parking - JVH, Parking Today - Tell me this isn’t the best. Thanks to the gang at IP Parking ...

March 19, 2019 - It May Not be Right, But it’s the Way It Is - JVH, Parking Today - PIE 2019 was winding down. The exhibit hall was closed ...

March 19, 2019 - “Air Garage” Campus Parking Using “Space Force” - JVH, Parking Today - Here’s the deal – Through the use of an app, an ...

March 18, 2019 - PIE 2019 – a Team Effort Thanks to All - JVH, Parking Today - The Parking Industry Expo 2019’s success was the result ...

March 18, 2019 - Conference Featuring Israeli Parking Technology - JVH, Parking Today - Israel is known for its high-tech sector, and parking is not forgotten. The Israel Conference on ...

March 8, 2019 - How to rebuild trust in a toxic workplace - “Avoid rationalizing, avoid becoming defensive when you hear something you don’t ...

March 6, 2019 - Parking Industry Expo 2019 – A Smorgasbord with Dessert - Taste All the Offerings - JVH, Parking Today - You Must Taste the Entire Event! I have been looking through ...

March 5, 2019 - Heat Wave Hits Chicago! - JVH, Parking Today - All things are relative, right. It’s going to be in the 40s in Chicago during PIE ...

March 4, 2019 - Men are almost 40% more likely to be narcissists. Science explains why they often become leaders - Why are men more narcissistic? From an evolutionary standpoint ...

March 1, 2019 - Culture Starts With Core Values - George Baker Sr., Founder, Chairman & CEO at ParkHub - After brainstorming and short-listing, I came down to these five core values: Clear, respectful and honest communication: Trust ...

Feb 28, 2019 - See you at PIE 2019: A Story about George and Gracie - JVH, Parking Today - I’m told I’m a story teller. I have been asked to craft a story to go along with Dale ...

Feb 26, 2019 - 7 successful women explain how they got the sponsor that changed their careers - “A mentor, frankly, is a nice to have, but you can survive a long time in your career ...

Feb 24, 2019 - Do I want to Live to be 100? - JVH, Parking Today - Happy Birthday, Larry, many happy returns. My guess is that there will be ...

Feb. 22, 2019 - Teamwork is crucial to workplace success – Here’s why! - Creating an environment where teamwork is encouraged ...

Feb 19, 2019 - How To Create A Diverse Workforce Culture - Diversity in the workplace is one of the key elements in driving innovation ...

Feb 14, 2019 - There Really Is a PIE in the Sky - JVH, Parking Today - When we started the Parking Industry Expo nearly two decades ...

Feb 13, 2019 - It’s time to awaken the humanity in business - Any company shifting toward a humanity-optimized business should have a strong internal voice of the customer ...

Feb 12, 2019 - PIE 2019 - An Invitation… Midwestern Parking Resource Forum - JVH, Parking Today - This is an event where agencies of all sizes can come together and discuss ...

Feb 11, 2019 - PIE 2019 – A Resource to help you Win the Smart Parking Smart City Challenge - JVH, Parking Today - You can be the leader in your community in the Smart Parking Smart ...

Feb 8, 2019 - How to build accountability into your corporate culture - It’s the ability of a person to provide focus on an initiative, make ...

Feb 7, 2019 - Communications and Trust - JVH, Parking Today - Over on Parknews.biz there’s a great article on the differences we can expect ...

Feb 4, 2019 - 5 ways work culture will change by 2030 - company culture is the second most important factor candidates consider when considering whether to work for a company ...

Feb 1, 2019 - You Still Have to Pay for the Transit Part - JVH, Parking Today - San Diego is joining a long list of cities changing the way ...

Feb 1, 2019 - PIE 2019: Lights! RFID! Enforcement! - JVH, Parking Today - Want to learn everything there is to know about ...

Jan 31, 2019 - Parking – Are We Partners or Are We Prey? - JVH, Parking Today - There are some big names out there – Visa, Apple, Google ...

Jan 31, 2019 - Its Time to Play Offense - JVH, Parking Today - I was supposed to fly to Chicago on Tuesday for an interview with Yona Shtern ...

Jan 31, 2019 - Can you really meet 30 people in 90 minutes? Yep at PIE - JVH, Parking Today - Studies have shown that you ‘size someone up’ in anywhere from one to seven ...

Jan 30, 2019 - No Offense/None Taken: My Blog and Clarity - JVH, Parking Today - My blog below on renaming the parking industry (Parking thy ...

Jan 30, 2019 - Parking thy name is Mobility - JVH, Parking Today - I have been musing about name changes and when I did my daily review ...

Jan 29, 2019 - Hyundai Predicts Level 4 AV in 11 years. Level 5??? - JVH, Parking Today - Two years ago we discussed in detail when ...

Jan 29, 2019 - Midwest Parking Resource Forum Launched at PIE 2019; Municipal Parking Managers – Don’t Miss This Major Event - JVH, Parking Today - This is an event where parking managers from cities of all sizes can come ...

Jan 29, 2019 - Brand purpose is the future for the majority of marketing leaders - At Davos last week, P&G chief marketing officer Marc ...

Jan 28, 2019 - Do you Lack Original Thought? - JVH, Parking Today - We live in a world of clichés. Our businesses are surrounded by ...

Jan 28, 2019 - PIE 2019: Mobility is more than a Service; MaaS includes Smart Parking as well - JVH, Parking Today - One of the highlights of the Smart Parking Symposium being held as ...

Jan 25, 2019 - What using these 5 clichéd phrases says about your management style - Falling back on expressions like, “Let’s think outside the box,” sends unintended ...

Jan 22, 2019 - World of Concrete - JVH, Parking Today - When I tell my friends I’m attending the “World of Concrete” trade show, they usually ...

Jan 21, 2019 - Your Item has Shipped - JVH, Parking Today - I ordered something on line. I didn’t realize I was ordering it from France ...

Jan 21, 2019 - Paul Baard's Motivation Matters: A CEO who put employees first - provide an environment in which people want to work ...

Jan 18, 2019 - What Is The Difference Between Management And Leadership? - Manage the things you need to manage, but lead the people you are supposed to lead ...

Jan 14, 2019 - Not Vaporware, This is Reality - Arrive, P97 and +chargepoint+ - JVH, Parking Today - Arrive, teaming with P97 and +chargepoint+ held an executive Round Table ...

Jan 14, 2019 - Can you train for emotional intelligence? - Emotional intelligence may be the most important soft skill for the ...

Jan 10, 2019 - Some Developers are “Spooked” over Parking - JVH, Parking Today - One of the speakers at the Arrive seminar yesterday was ...

Jan 9, 2019 - If You Think You Know What “The Last Mile” Means, You Are Probably Wrong! - JVH, Parking Today - I thought “First Mile, Last Mile” issues dealt with Mobility as a Service and ...

Jan 9, 2019 - COMPANY OF 2018: 14 Months, 120 Cities, $2 Billion: There's Never Been a Company Like Bird. Is the World Ready? - E-scooters are a controversial business. Don't expect Bird's driven founder, Travis ...

Jan 7, 2019 - The new ways we could get hacked (and defended) in 2019 - Experts from the NSA and Darktrace discuss AI, invisible security ...

Jan 4, 2019 - How to redesign your days to give you back a few extra hours every week - We’ve all got a fixed 24 hours in a day and 7 days in ...

Jan 2, 2019 - How to Have a Good Conversation - Celeste Headlee - When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about ...

Jan 2, 2019 - Electric Cars, Pollution and You - JVH, Parking Today - A year or so ago I commented on an article that posited that ...

Dec 31, 2018 - Hate 2018 Style - JVH, Parking Today - There are, at last count, 328 million people in the US. Keep that number in mind ...

Dec 31, 2018 - And Have the Wisdom to Know the Difference - JVH, Parking Today - As we head into the New Year, we are supposed to think ...

Dec 27, 2018 - One Size Doesn’t Fit All - JVH, Parking Today - It never hurts to be reminded that our personal experience can strongly ...

Dec 21, 2018 - Merry Christmas from Park News - Remembering Christmas - JVH, Parking Today - It was created by our newest staff member Jordan Weiner. I don’t know if it was ...

Dec 19, 2018 - How to Make Cross-Functional Operations a Team Effort - the need to bring together people with disparate, yet extremely complimentary skills to work on a project ...

Dec 17, 2018 - Paul Found What’s in it for Him - JVH, Parking Today - OK, the expo was over. Paul had survived. When he returned to his desk ...

Dec 17, 2018 - Merry ??????? - JVH, Parking Today - I have noticed that the number of Christmas Cards we have received is way ...

Dec 17, 2018 - The hidden networking gap between men and women - According to the study, women often hesitate to ask for help ...

Dec 14, 2018 - Creativity Is The Skill Of The Future - since technology is only going to advance, the question is: what will be the most coveted skill of the future? ... it is creativity

Dec 13, 2018 - In venture capital, it’s still the age of the unicorn - This month marks the 5-year anniversary of Aileen Lee’s landmark article, “Welcome To The Unicorn Club”. At the time ...

Dec 12, 2018 - The Age of Unicorns - Today the technology industry is crowded with billion-dollar startups. When Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee coined the term unicorn as a label ...

Dec 12, 2018 - Suddenly we have a Unicorn – Now What? ParkJockey on the Rise - JVH, Parking Today - When one refers to a Unicorn today, its not a mythical horse, but a high tech startup ...

Dec 11, 2018 - That Nasty 30% Cruising for Parking – Now Harper’s Magazine is on the Case - JVH, Parking Today - I can’t seem to get away from this number: 30%. That’s what everyone ...

Dec 10, 2018 - A City in the Sand - JVH, Parking Today - I spent last week traveling to Dubai to speak at Gulf Traffic, a trade event covering ...