Movers and Shakers

Once the world of marketing communications sunk its talons into Naeran Rubio, it was a fait accompli that she would spend her career dedicated to advancing the business persona of her employer. Not that she didn’t look elsewhere, at least initially. After all, Rubio changed Read More

Anyone with baseline sales experience can peddle office equipment. It’s the timber of the relationships an executive can forge with clients and prospects that will go a long way toward the success of a company. Or its lack thereof. Joshua Wickstrom, co-owner of Sharp Business Read More

It’s not just the most jaded of employees who privately fear that their company views them as just a number, a garden variety commodity who could be swapped out in a heartbeat. Every now and then, however, an event or situation arises that underscores a team member’s worth, and Read More

Many workers, particularly those who’ve amassed a fair amount of tenure, often find their jobs to be stagnating or at least lacking in the change-of-pace department. The same old, same old is what causes those concentric circles to do their hypnotic eye spins. And it may not be Read More

Brent Portera is proud to say that he had a front-row seat for the evolution of Copier Headquarters to GoodSuite. Little did he know at the time that more change was in the air. It was the final day of 2019, and the newly-christened GoodSuite was holding a technology show at its Read More

Starting this week and running through the end of the calendar year, ENX Magazine will highlight participating Difference Makers with extended personality profiles in The Week in Imaging newsletter. You can read about all 67 honorees in our May issue. Ron Robey sat in the lotus Read More

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than ‘good job.’—Terence Fletcher, Whiplash The quote is delivered brilliantly by actor J.K. Simmons, playing an instructor at a music conservatory who is hell-bent on cultivating Charlie Parker-level greatness in one of Read More

What is the common thread between actor Kevin Bacon and Pulse Technology CEO Chip Miceli? Both gentlemen are ideal candidates for the Six Degrees of Separation game. One can link any actor with Bacon inside of six steps—for example: Dustin Hoffman starred with Donald Sutherland Read More

It’s been said that the most competitive of salespeople hate losing more than they like winning. While it may sound like backward logic, there is a difference. Quite a meaningful one, actually. For those who live by the sale, closing a deal is always the default expectatio Read More

When she was named senior vice president, CFO of Sharp Electronics in 2018 after nearly five years as a controller, Moonsun Park saw it as validation of not just the faith the company had in her abilities, but also the tools she possessed to reconcile challenges. And despite the Read More

It’s not an embellishment to say that the internet has enriched our lives during the past 30 years. It ushered in an age of instant information. Unfortunately, the cost of admission was being exposed to a great deal of misinformation in the form of rumors, half-truths and Read More

Jennifer Healy has never shied away from a challenge. Having accrued nearly 30 years in the industry, with all but four of them spent immersed in the world of marketing, she forged a Teflon-like coating that prevented challenges from sticking. Thus, when the opportunity came to Read More

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt once opined, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Even as a child, Christina Fisher longed to be someone special and achieve great things. Her dream was to become the first person in her family to attain Read More

Those of us old enough to remember the 1970s vividly will recall how the television set was the center of the household universe. No YouTube, eBay, Amazon or the internet, for that matter. Only the warm, often statically glow of the boob tube brought the world into our homes, Read More

Every sales rep remembers that one gratifying takedown that solidifies, in his or her mind, that they have found their true professional calling. For Stephanie Keating Phillips, that moment arrived at the tender age of 24, when a large national account win translated into a Read More