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Jan 14, 2019 - Not Vaporware, This is Reality - Arrive, P97 and +chargepoint+ - JVH, Parking Today - Arrive, teaming with P97 and +chargepoint+ held an executive Round Table ...

Jan 14, 2019 - Can you train for emotional intelligence? - Emotional intelligence may be the most important soft skill for the ...

Jan 10, 2019 - Some Developers are “Spooked” over Parking - JVH, Parking Today - One of the speakers at the Arrive seminar yesterday was ...

Jan 9, 2019 - If You Think You Know What “The Last Mile” Means, You Are Probably Wrong! - JVH, Parking Today - I thought “First Mile, Last Mile” issues dealt with Mobility as a Service and ...

Jan 9, 2019 - COMPANY OF 2018: 14 Months, 120 Cities, $2 Billion: There's Never Been a Company Like Bird. Is the World Ready? - E-scooters are a controversial business. Don't expect Bird's driven founder, Travis ...

Jan 7, 2019 - The new ways we could get hacked (and defended) in 2019 - Experts from the NSA and Darktrace discuss AI, invisible security ...

Jan 4, 2019 - How to redesign your days to give you back a few extra hours every week - We’ve all got a fixed 24 hours in a day and 7 days in ...

Jan 2, 2019 - How to Have a Good Conversation - Celeste Headlee - When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about ...

Jan 2, 2019 - Electric Cars, Pollution and You - JVH, Parking Today - A year or so ago I commented on an article that posited that ...

Dec 31, 2018 - Hate 2018 Style - JVH, Parking Today - There are, at last count, 328 million people in the US. Keep that number in mind ...

Dec 31, 2018 - And Have the Wisdom to Know the Difference - JVH, Parking Today - As we head into the New Year, we are supposed to think ...

Dec 27, 2018 - One Size Doesn’t Fit All - JVH, Parking Today - It never hurts to be reminded that our personal experience can strongly ...

Dec 21, 2018 - Merry Christmas from Park News - Remembering Christmas - JVH, Parking Today - It was created by our newest staff member Jordan Weiner. I don’t know if it was ...

Dec 19, 2018 - How to Make Cross-Functional Operations a Team Effort - the need to bring together people with disparate, yet extremely complimentary skills to work on a project ...

Dec 17, 2018 - Paul Found What’s in it for Him - JVH, Parking Today - OK, the expo was over. Paul had survived. When he returned to his desk ...

Dec 17, 2018 - Merry ??????? - JVH, Parking Today - I have noticed that the number of Christmas Cards we have received is way ...

Dec 17, 2018 - The hidden networking gap between men and women - According to the study, women often hesitate to ask for help ...

Dec 14, 2018 - Creativity Is The Skill Of The Future - since technology is only going to advance, the question is: what will be the most coveted skill of the future? ... it is creativity

Dec 13, 2018 - In venture capital, it’s still the age of the unicorn - This month marks the 5-year anniversary of Aileen Lee’s landmark article, “Welcome To The Unicorn Club”. At the time ...

Dec 12, 2018 - The Age of Unicorns - Today the technology industry is crowded with billion-dollar startups. When Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee coined the term unicorn as a label ...

Dec 12, 2018 - Suddenly we have a Unicorn – Now What? ParkJockey on the Rise - JVH, Parking Today - When one refers to a Unicorn today, its not a mythical horse, but a high tech startup ...

Dec 11, 2018 - That Nasty 30% Cruising for Parking – Now Harper’s Magazine is on the Case - JVH, Parking Today - I can’t seem to get away from this number: 30%. That’s what everyone ...

Dec 10, 2018 - A City in the Sand - JVH, Parking Today - I spent last week traveling to Dubai to speak at Gulf Traffic, a trade event covering ...

Dec 10, 2018 - Set the Conditions for Anyone on Your Team to Be Creative - One of the most damaging myths about creativity is that there is a specific “creative personality” that some ...

Dec 5, 2018 - 5 myths about the future of work that you need to stop believing - we all will have to learn how to leverage humanities ...

Dec 4, 2018 - WIIFM - part 5 - JVH, Parking Today - Paul didn’t realize it, but he wanted an event that stressed WIIFM, that’s “What’s In It ...

Dec 4, 2018 - Can a two-page resume increase your odds of getting hired? - Despite the long-held convention, a recent study has found ...

Dec 3, 2018 - The Search for Perfection - part 4 - JVH, Parking Today - He guessed he wanted a user-friendly event where he could feel ...

Nov 30, 2018 - There Wasn’t Enough Aspirin on the Planet - part 3 - JVH, Parking Today - As Paul thought about the trade events the next day ...

Nov 29, 2018 - He Wanted Solutions - part 2 - JVH, Parking Today - He fought his way through airports, couldn’t find the place to register ...

Nov 29, 2018 - Are You Calling Me Stupid? - JVH, Parking Today - This little story is from Julianne over at Flowbird. It can happen to all of us ...

Nov 28, 2018 - The Pressure Was Intense - part 1 - JVH, Parking Today - Paul awoke worrying about everything, his job, his family, his ...

Nov 27, 2018 - Secrets of 13 of the world’s most productive people - You’ve never been busier, and the demands on your time have never ...

Nov 26, 2018 - Every Day Above Ground is a Good Day! Let’s Focus on the Present - JVH, Parking Today - My friend Carla Green over at Clarity Designworks sent this thoughtful ...

Nov 21, 2018 - Happy Thanksgiving - JVH, Parking Today - Its Thanksgiving and time to think about things we can be thankful for ...

Nov 20, 2018 - Mobility and the Resistance - JVH, Parking Today - I was surprised when the woman in charge of “Smart Cities” for Los ...

Nov 19, 2018 - Mobility - Can Parking Survive without it - JVH, Parking Today - The term “Mobility” has suddenly become the buzzword ...

Nov 15, 2018 - Want to be a successful CEO? Get a dog - Turns out the path to career success doesn’t just run through Wharton, but starts with a childhood filled with puppies, kittens ...

Nov 14, 2018 - Parking Organizations are Critical to our Industry - JVH, Parking Today - Like leaves turning color, parking organizations meet during Autumn ...

Nov 13, 2018 - How do These Stories Affect Me? - JVH, Parking Today - I was chatting with a friend the other day and commented that ...

Nov 12, 2018 - The Speed of our Lives, Taking Offense, and Fake News - JVH, Parking Today - I read recently that the Feds are considering dropping the requirement that businesses ...

Nov 12, 2018 - They Had Your Back, Show Them You Have Theirs - JVH, Parking Today - Today we celebrate Veterans Day, formerly Armistice ...

Nov 7, 2018 - How to use pointless meetings to sell your ideas and advance your career - These five steps will enable you to play a leadership ...

Nov 7, 2018 - So, what exactly is a smart city? And why do marketers need to know? - what does this concept really mean, apart from free wifi, sensors to monitor air quality or ...

Nov 6, 2018 - Vote Today! "Its Election Day" - JVH, Parking Today - Have you Voted? There is still time. It seems there is a huge interest in ...

Nov 2, 2018 - Mobility – Private Vehicles Lead the Pack - JVH, Parking Today - “Mobility” is a buzz word. In Australia it refers to assisting ...

Nov 1, 2018 - Disruption in Parking — Another Look - JVH, Parking Today - Back in Early October, I wrote a piece poo pooing disruption in our ...

Oct 29, 2018 - A Fly in the Shoup, Continued… JVH, Parking Today - And then we have to go in and clean up the mess. We had a lot of ...

Oct 25, 2018 - NPA – Welcoming and Engaged - JVH, Parking Today - I have been asked what made this NPA event so special. My answer is ...

Oct 25, 2018 - We Need a Speech About “How to Fail” - JVH, Parking Today - I have been thinking about the keynote speech we all heard at the ...

Oct 24, 2018 - NPA Knocks it out of the Park - JVH, Parking Today - The 2018 National Parking Association Conference and Expo is underway ...

Oct 17, 2018 - City Parking Manager Fined $16K, But He Still has a Job - JVH, Parking Today - A garage manager who is paid over $100,000 a year, has been fined $16,000 for stealing ...

Oct 17, 2018 - A Booming Economy, the Downside - JVH, Parking Today - The economy is booming, companies are growing ...

Oct 16, 2018 - A Fly in our Shoup… JVH, Parking Today - What a great headline – Astrid found it over at Forbes and posted on parknews.biz ...

Oct 16, 2018 - Curbway – All the Best… JVH, Parking Today - I’m always excited when I hear about a new company appearing on the scene. I received a head up call from Charley DeBow ...

Oct 12, 2018 - A Single Finger Salute to “Middle Aged Men in Lycra” - JVH, Parking Today - Our cousins in the UK have similar problems with central cities dying and folks heading to ...

Oct 12, 2018 - Disruption in the Parking Industry, I don’t think so - JVH, Parking Today - First, let’s decide what “disruption” really means. I like this definition from Wikipedia: In ...

Oct 12, 2018 - Can we have both efficient self-driving cars and walkable, livable communities? - Autonomous car proponents say that they will make streets safer 4 pedestrians ...

Oct 11, 2018 - The 5 people you must have in your network - These different views and perspectives should challenge assumptions ...

Oct 8, 2018 - Parking at Costco – I have a solution - JVH, Parking Today - I just got back from Costco. It is surrounded by acres of free ...

Oct 5, 2018 - "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it" - JVH, Parking Today - Some apartment dwellers in East Orange, NJ, have a parking problem, at least from their point of ...

Oct 5, 2018 - Your Corporate Web Site – Have you looked at it lately, really looked? - JVH, Parking Today - The other day I want to the grocery store and bought a bottle Carnivore ...

Oct 3, 2018 - "Self-driving cars are coming, but developers aren’t reducing parking yet, survey finds" - JVH, Parking Today - Wow, so many things wrong with that headline, and I haven’t even ...

Oct 1, 2018 - Get a Flu Shot, Dammit - JVH, Parking Today - Last week I visited my doctor for a scheduled check up. The receptionist asked ...

Sep 28, 2018 - Parking vs Mobility – Is it time to Rename an Industry - JVH, Parking Today - Kenzie Coulson, who runs the parking and transportation operations for the city of Park City, Utah, had an interesting discussion ...

Sep 27, 2018 - How to fix your toxic culture - “Self-awareness and personal accountability are hallmarks of effective ...

Sep 25, 2018 - 35% Parking Tax and Forbid Monthly Parking…Where to Begin - JVH, Parking Today - An opinion piece in the New York Times (you can follow the link at parknews.biz) calls for a citywide 35% tax (up from 18% in ...

Sep 25, 2018 - Parking Today — Content Rules - JVH, Parking Today - I have just received the final looksee at PT October before it heads ...

Sep 24, 2018 - How To Create A Positive Workplace Culture - A positive workplace culture improves teamwork, raises the ...

Sep 24, 2018 - I admit it, I’m a Grouch - JVH, Parking Today - When I reread this blog piece, and with the urging of Astrid, I began to ...

Sep 21, 2018 - Don’t wait for New Year’s: Why you should be setting your goals now - “Make a list of goals that you did not achieve, but that ...

Sep 20, 2019 - Is Parking’s Emerging Tech an Early Sunrise or a Bright Sunny Day? - JVH, Parking Today - When I hear “emerging technology” I think of the sun coming up first ...

Sep 17, 2018 - 6 qualities that will get you noticed in the workplace - Showing this high level of initiative can take on numerous ...

Sep 14, 2018 - Business advice from Howard Schultz: The ‘humanity’ of a company will create long-term value - “regardless of product or service, we are all in the people business,” ...

Sep 13, 2018 - JVH, the fortune teller: Self-driving cars, buzzwords, "techno-chauvinism" - JVH, Parking Today - As you may remember, I have been railing against panic over autonomous vehicles for the past two years ...

Sep 13, 2018 - Welcome to Reykjavik … Parking, that is - JVH, Parking Today - I was honored to be able to spend a few hours with Kolbrun ...

Sep 11, 2018 - The Value of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace - Frere Enterprises - Strong EI allows one the ability to listen and empathize with people from a large variety ...

Sep 7, 2018 - When Is Teamwork Really Necessary? - The problem is when leaders try to drive the wrong kind of collaboration on ...

Sep 6, 2018 - Ponies but no Sheepdogs - JVH, Parking Today - I’m travelling this week and next on a ship “In the Wake of the Vikings”. We ...

Sep 6, 2018 - FREEDOM!!!! - JVH, Parking Today - I met with a group than ran parking for a major university and gave a spiel on how easy it ...

Sep 5, 2018 - How to harness positive stress in the workplace - Positive stress seems to counteract all the negative consequences of ...

Sep 4, 2018 - Parking lots are the new solution to the homelessness crisis in cities — but they're also part of the problem

Aug 31, 2018 - Parking Today Media goes Geofencing: What the Hell is a “Geo Fence” - JVH, Parking Today - I pulled together a presentation for a potential customer and was blown away at the many ...

Aug 30, 2018 - The 3 Questions Supervisors Wish You Would Stop Asking - The best employees are the intellectually curious ones who ask great questions and seek to ...

Aug 28, 2018 - What If Electric Cars Fail Again? - There are some recent breakthroughs with gas cars that actually could make them ...

Aug 24, 2018 - Parking, It’s about Service - JVH, Parking Today - Back in the day particularly in Manhattan, but in other places as well ...

Aug 24, 2018 - The Women of Parking Today Media - JVH, Parking Today - We held our mid year meeting this week and my staff joined us ...

Aug 23, 2018 - What do we mean “We are the Arena” - JVH, Parking Today - We can argue on Teddy Roosevelt’s tenure as President, but ...

Aug 22, 2018 - Its cheaper to own a car than take ride sharing, really - JVH, Parking Today - According to the AAA, Its cheaper to own, maintain, park, and insure a car than ...