Assessing Today’s Risk and Opportunities as an AV Professional: Noise Reduction

 

Change. We can’t stop it, but we can decide how much, when, where, and why. The opportunity that change brings to us isn’t always obvious, but it’s always around. The risks and rewards that accompany change are both sides of the magnet – they pull is in and push us away.

On this episode of Noise Reduction, host Collyer Spreen brings the issues of change, adaptation and strategy to the AV industry. Choosing wisely when presented with change is the key, as well as choosing at all. Now, especially in this great time of global change with a pandemic sweeping across the globe, is the perfect time to assess the opportunities of change we have available to us. Weigh the risk and the reward, is it worth it?

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