by Carissa Willcoxon | Jun 22, 2022 | A Sharpe Insight
It’s summer in Nashville, big time. June is normally hot, but this mid-June day we are also experiencing a heatwave. In a 20-minute drive from a meeting, I could not get my a/c to come close to cooling the small interior of my 1996 Toyota Tacoma. With the heat index,...
by Carissa Willcoxon | Nov 15, 2021 | A Sharpe Insight
My grandfather told me (with tears of laughter rolling down his cheeks) about the first time his brother saw a train and fled, thinking it was some sort of smoking, rolling beast coming for him. That was in the early 1900s. In 2021, it is hard to believe that we’d be...
by Carissa Willcoxon | May 17, 2021 | A Sharpe Insight
The ISTS Executive Team has a daily huddle every morning. These meetings last anywhere from five to 30 minutes depending on the topics at hand. We started these huddles right after the pandemic hit to stay connected and in front of any potential issues – we’ve...
by Carissa Willcoxon | Sep 24, 2020 | Current Affairs
I have been reflecting on the first half of 2020 and realize that two words keep coming up: agility and resilience. Agility is defined on dictionary.com as the “ability to move quickly and easily,” while resilience is the “ability to recover readily” when facing...
by Carissa Willcoxon | Jun 30, 2020 | A Sharpe Insight
Since mid-March 2020, we’ve all been working remotely and adjusting to the seemingly daily changes in how we are supposed to shop, work and interact. It has become a very virtual world as most meetings are held using video conference tools like Zoom. If I read this in...
