My trade show maven friend Jane Thompson writes about people who don’t know how to say goodbye. “When you are prepping your booth staff for a show,” she warns, “don’t forget to prepare them for the eventuality of having to extract themselves from a conversation with an attendee who is ‘going on too long’”. It’s not unusual […]
When my latest issue of the Tucker Talks Real Estate newsletter arrived in the mail, it was a wakeup call. “At the end of the workday,” the lead article read, “you’re ready to leave behind the endless barrage of emails, conference calls, and meetings.” There are steps I could follow, the author reminded me, to […]
“Eliminate the negative an’ latch on to the affirmative” was Johnny Mercer’s musical advice back in 1945. Playing to one’s strengths has, in fact, been a popular fad in management development circles. As a blog content writer, though, sometimes I wonder. The latest issue of Modern Dog magazine features eight article titles on its cover: […]
Hara Estroff Marano, writing in Psychology Today, says she won’t tell you what to think, but will tell you what to think about. While in this article the psychologist is offering food for thought in the sphere of dating and self-motivation, I couldn’t help but love that line of hers, realizing how very apropos it […]
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