IPMA Makes a Splash in Kansas City
One interesting session covered the idea of building "social capital" by broadening your networking efforts. Doranne Hudson, with the Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, revealed that men are actually better at networking than women because women tend to value more intimate relationships, while men like shallower, broader relationships. This leaves many women with fewer people in their networks, and thus fewer opportunities.
She advised attendees to push out of the comfort zone of their peers and broaden their networks to include more diversity and different levels of seniority.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
