The Strategy Team at RD2 owns the Strategy phase of our process. We work hard to research and discuss all aspects of a client’s business to be sure that the projects and initiatives we execute on make the most sense - with what clients want to achieve, and the environment they’re working in. We are young, but we are sharp and quick… and constantly learning.

Our New Year’s resolutions are as follows:

Overall business resolutions

• Get better at our jobs
• Work smarter, not harder
• Learn more
• Get better at presenting
• Do better work, faster
• Go to a major conference. Suggestions?

Eric

• Stick to the exercise routine I started and did not maintain last year
• Rework how I will achieve running a marathon
  • Compete in various 10 - 50k runs to lead up and keep me motivated towards a marathon
• See 4 amazing concerts this year
• Keep organized

Mark

• Ride my bike(s) 100 miles a week
• Get back on my Navy SEALs work out regimen
• Spend less weekend time on the computer and more time reading and being productive
• Learn to cook some new things
• Make it to Munich for Oktoberfest
• Road trips to Palo Duro, the Womble, and South Boundary

Patty

• Cook more breakfast & dinner
• Wake up earlier
• Adopt a dog
• Work out, ugh
• Take more pictures
• Get quicker with putting presentations together
• Be on time
• Improve my writing
• Become more technology savvy

Caitlin

• Read more. Next up on the list:
  • “I am America (and so can you)” - Stephen Colbert
  • “Brainiac” - Ken Jennings
  • “Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style” - Tim Gunn
  • Harry Potter 1 - 7 (The goal is to have them completed by Summer 2009, when my sister graduates from high school and Harry Potter World opens)
• Blog more
• Enjoy doing healthy things
• Get better at managing my time
  • Be late less often
  • Stop underestimating travel time, transition time, and traffic
• Make good financial decisions
• Have more adventures. Especially, but not limited to: concerts, music festivals, and road trips