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Editor, Brad Kane,
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News Editor, Grant Welker,
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(Higher education, health care)
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Micah Wingell
Contributors
Susan Shalhoub, Livia Gershon,
Sarah Connell
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A Guide to STUFF, a publication
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T
his letter is essentially an apol-
ogy to Scott Richardson, Karen
A. Koller, and Linda Cavaioli.
For our Business Leaders
of the Year and WBJ Hall of
Fame awards, photographer Matt Wright
and I met with nine of this year's honorees
on Feb. 11 for a photo shoot to take all the
necessary group and individual portraits
at the new Foisie Innovation Studio at
Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Group photo shoots are hectic enough,
but a few days before I decided to dial
the craziness to 11 by arranging another
shoot with Matt almost simultaneously at
WPI. For the article "Disrespected" which
became WBJ's cover story of the Feb. 16
edition, reporter Sarah Connell had done
an excellent job telling the very powerful
stories of seven Central Mass. profession-
al women who were sexually harassed.
Unlike the Business Leader awards, whose
publication date is scheduled almost a year
in advance, Sarah's story came together
quickly, so arranging a photo shoot on
short notice with seven professionals with
busy schedules was a near impossible task.
Luckily, five of the women from Sarah's
story were available to come to WPI just as
the Business Leaders shoot was supposed
to be wrapping up. Unfortunately, it didn't
wrap up on time.
Matt did an excellent job getting quality
photos of all the winners quickly, on differ-
ent backgrounds, while navigating a busy
student-filled building. Yet, as the women
for the "Disrespected" shoot trickled in,
we hadn't finished the individual portraits
for the three Hall of Famers. Because one
of the women had to leave immediately
following her photos, I had to suspend the
Hall of Fame shoot.
In my mind, the conversation with the
Hall of Famers went like this, "Hey, I know
we are honoring you for this great level of
power and achievement few others will
ever reach AND you have been patiently
waiting in this college building for nearly
two hours; but would you mind sitting
tight for another 20-30 minutes while I
steal the photographer away for a story
you know absolutely nothing about?" I
did apologize roughly 1 billion times over
the course of those 20 minutes; and I am
incredibly grateful how understanding
Richardson, Koller and Cavaioli were.
I N T H I S I S S U E
e lesson of this WBJ is something like,
"Be like the Hall of Famers: smart, giving,
and understanding." A better lesson for me,
though, is, "Don't dial the craziness to 11.
Keep it at 7."
- Brad Kane, editor
A lesson in time management
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NEWS & ANALYSIS
DEPARTMENTS
5 Briefs
11 Business Leaders of the Year
18 WBJ Hall of Fame
24 The List: Top SBA loan recipients
26 Column: The Struggle is Real
27 Know How
28 Movers & Shakers
29 Opinion
30 Shop Talk: Trave Harmon of Triton
Technologies
27 10 Things I know about …
Building your personal balance
sheet
Advice columnist Ryan M. Kittredge says
the keys to long-term financial freedom
include proper planning and building
passive income streams.
29 Climate initiative takes fuel
prices too far
Opinion columnist Christopher Carlozzi
argues Gov. Charlie Baker's plan to join
the Transportation and Climate Initiative
will be too costly to businesses for too little
environmental impact.
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