Special Edition for Job Seekers Know a college grad, a job seeker, just want to know what’s happening — it’s all here. This isn’t an article. It’s a whole magazine! Great Find: BusinessWeek Special … [Read more...]
Can’t Write? Improve Your Skill Set to Improve Your Job Security
Improving Your Writing Skills Is an Investment Straight talk on business writing is a crucial need in the 21st century. We do business with people we don’t meet. It doesn’t matter whether we work … [Read more...]
Change the World: Be a Leader on Your Path
March to Your Own Drummer When I was a child, people said I marched to a different drummer. It was said with a bit of love and a forgiving smile. The implication of such a condition was a sad … [Read more...]
Change the World: Find the Promise
Don’t Stop Believing in a Good World My friend, Jill, tells this story. Jill and her daughters were riding the Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios in Orlando. Lisa, age 11, sat near her … [Read more...]
Change the World: Knowing When Not to Listen
Be the Teacher Listening. We all want to be heard. It’s often a gift to listen when someone needs to talk. But not always . . . Sometimes we talk just to know that we’re here. Sometimes we rattle … [Read more...]
Change the World: See the Innocence
Looking and Seeing When I get stressed or pulled like a wire, my expectations for others creep higher. I don’t see things the way they are, I sometimes get stuck in my head and lose track of the … [Read more...]
Change the World: Think Our Way Out of the Box
We Make Our Reality It’s only sensible that we make our reality. What we perceive comes through the filter of what we have experienced before. When I used go home to visit my family for … [Read more...]
Check It Out–For Your Readers
The rule is Allow half again as much time for editing. If it took 20 minutes to write it, allow 10 more to check it out. For me, it works the opposite, if it took 20 minutes to write, it will take 40 … [Read more...]
Cool Designs April 2006
Successful Blogs Look Successful Spring is time we think of spring cleaning. I’ve been thinking it was time to show off some of the folks who add to the wonder and beauty of the blogosphere. So here’s … [Read more...]
Critical Skill 6A: Five Tools for Finding Faulty Assumptions
What Is the Premise Behind your Thinking? At the time I was an Executive Editor. The project was simple. Build a binder of about 300 pages. I’d probably built four times that many books already. … [Read more...]
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