Are you addicted to buzz? And I don’t mean your three cups of coffee a day or Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. I’m talking about a dependence on jargon and hype. Let me illustrate. Recently I got an email from a new connection on social media who wanted to introduce herself more fully and ask [...]
If I had a nickel for every time I have heard, “This year, I’m going to GO BIG” or the equivalent, I’d certainly have enough for a trip to a warm beach for a few days. (Yes, it’s finally cold here in New York.) It’s been sent to me in emails and posted on various [...]
According to Franklin Covey, a third of all resolutions are broken by mid-January and 80% of all resolutions never make it. And if I had to guess, when it comes to business, resolutions last even less than two weeks, as the day to day activities ramp up again at the beginning of the 2012. That’s [...]
Each year, my sisters and their families gather with my family at my parents’ home for Thanksgiving. And as much as it’s a time for being thankful, it’s also time for conversations. Yet there are some people in the family (who shall be nameless) where year after year the conversation. From what they are thankful [...]
A while back, I was asked to donate (yes, donate) to an entrepreneur who needed money to get a book published. She claimed if I didn’t help, she would have to tap into her children’s lunch money. Maybe she was joking, but I wasn’t laughing. I was angry. This kind of manipulation – that is, [...]
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