Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Power to the People
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
There is a little guilty pleasure I get as I travel between sites and make stops along the way: I get to be a power leech.
I’m not armed with many devices, usually only a cell phone and laptop, but there are occasions when I’m away from my office and have to crunch some material or need to join a conference call and share my computer desktop with attendees. Problem is, these extended sessions burn up my energy resources and as I’m making my pilgrimages I’ve found myself on the hunt for hospitable outlets in which to recharge my appliances.
I’m not alone, either. Call us poor planners or too cheap to invest in auxiliary batteries, but there are a number of us transient people out there who are squeezing into various nooks and crannies and creating dangerous navigation situations with multitudes of power cords just so we can keep our lifestyle energized. Swapping outlets and even sharing plugs, we’re the dregs who shuffle chairs, unplug light fixtures and even sit on the floor just to get a place to suck down some electricity.
Public buildings with convenient chairs (such as libraries) are great targets. The chains of malls, bookstores, coffee shops and other gathering places are ripe for the picking, too. Almost anything is fair game--you may just have to adjust your attitudes of propriety. To be fair, however, …
Please log in or sign up below to read the rest of the article.
ADVERTISEMENTS