Temin and Company, Incorporated

02/26/2025

08/09/2024

Bravado doesn’t belong in the boardroom.

CEOs of multinational companies with diverse workforces will face conflicting pressures on how to respond to various issues, says Davia Temin. “It’s the board’s role to examine that – coolly, calmly, strategically,” and with ethics and compassion in mind.

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07/29/2024

When shareholders push orgs toward political or social agendas, orgs need to "go softly," says Davia Temin, CEO of Temin and Company, Incorporated, which specializes in and , strategy, and at the CEO, C-Suite and Board levels. "You don't have to respond to everything. But you certainly need to be aware of it. You need to be measured in what you support and what you don't support and evaluate what your role is in this on a continuing rolling basis." https://lnkd.in/eB9ad4mk

07/24/2024

Is it too late to say sorry?

“What you say first counts double as that’s the sentiment people remember," says Davia Temin, CEO and crisis strategist of Temin and Company, Incorporated. Read more in Fortune by Diane Brady.

CrowdStrike’s response to the massive outage it caused remains, at best, underwhelming.

07/07/2024

Quote of the day.

03/27/2024

JUST PUBLISHED: New Forbes article from Davia Temin, "Concentrate On Your Reputation, Not Brand — Brands Are For Products (and Cattle), Reputations Are For People," on the differences between building v. and which holds up better to the onslaught of .

"Reputations, as opposed to brands, are forged by the thousands of decisions, micro decisions and actions leaders take every day, as well as the north stars that guides them. In other words, reputations are as nuanced, complex, multifactorial, deep and fragile as human beings are. What they are not is superficial, simplistic, untrue, a list of 'attributes' which may or may not be true, or pure spin."

Reputations are as nuanced, complex, multifactorial, deep and fragile as human beings. They are not superficial, simplistic, untrue, a list of “attributes," or pure spin.

02/14/2024

A psychologically rich life — what a noble goal. And in reading this article from Scientific American, I realized this has always been my goal. Be careful what you wish for!!

“Beyond Happy — Achieving happiness is a good goal to have in life. But an even better one might be to experience a psychologically rich life. Psychological richness involves varied and intense emotions, diverse and novel experiences, and complex mental engagement with living. Studies correlate psychological richness with curiosity and openness to experience. Feeling happy all the time not only evades many people, adding to feelings of frustration, but it may just lead to a more…boring way to live.

Good from bad: Researchers have found that negative emotions can result in positive outcomes. Sadness prompts people to think in a more analytical, clear-eyed way. Anger can boost performance on tasks. Boredom can prompt people to make a change in their life circumstances.

What the experts say: “Negative emotions, even though they feel bad to experience, can motivate and prepare people for failure, challenges, threats and exploration,” writes Heather Lench, professor of psychological and brain sciences at Texas A&M University.”

02/13/2024

Even if you’re a 25/8 kind of person—this is good advice from Harvard Business Review: How to leave your work at work:
- Finish one small task before you leave the office
- Write a to-do list for the next day
- Tidy your desk
- Create a ritual to mark the end of professional time
- Start your personal time in the evening on a positive note

When work is stressful, it can be difficult to disengage at the end of the day. But research shows that certain routines can help: finish one small task before you leave the office, write a to-do list for the next day, tidy your desk, create a ritual to mark the end of professional time, and start y...

07/17/2022

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“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
— Aristotle

08/07/2020

The Man in the Arena

When Roosevelt was giving this speech, he started with: “The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities—all these are marks, not ... of superiority but of weakness.”

Then he went on to deliver his masterpiece, that has encouraged men and women of action for decades.

The Man in the Arena

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

--Theodore Roosevelt

08/07/2020

Words to sooth our souls: