Image by Beverly & Pack via Flickr Happy Labor (and Labour) Day to all that celebrate this holiday! For all others, hope your week is off to a great start. I am celebrating the day by non-laboring but will be back tomorrow with regularly scheduled posts. Enjoy the day and please join me tomorrow. Related [...]
5 Tips to Instantly Improve Your Communication Skills
September 1, 2010 By 10 Comments
This is the third post in a series on communications in the digital age. You can read Part I and Part II here and here. I ran across a statistic at the HBR website that drives home the need for being able to communicate well. According to a recent survey of 120 blue-chip American companies [...]
Say What? – Age of Communication Part II
August 31, 2010 By 5 Comments
Image by jodi عبدالمجيد المطيويع via Flickr This is part II of a series on communications in the digital age. If you missed the introduction you can read it here. As often happens I wrote this series and communication issues rose up around me. In the past several days I have read and heard so [...]
The Age of Communication?
August 30, 2010 By 7 Comments
Image via Wikipedia I had an interesting conversation with a client the other day about etiquette and the art of conversation. Like me he is a baby boomer, fully immersed in current technology yet aware of its shortcomings. We both still write real letters, phone our friends to chat and talk to people minus a [...]
What Will You Do for Fame?
August 25, 2010 By 8 Comments
Image via Wikipedia How far would you go to be famous? If offered a shortcut that would catapult you into stardom, would you take it? Would you change the way you act to fit in to the accepted vision of fame? Would you prioritize your friends and family based on their influence? Would you step [...]
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