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Mar 27, 2014 (Personal) Hygiene   Last week I received an email with a single word in the subject line: “Hygiene”. Upon opening it, I discovered it was from my dentist. Apparently it’s time for… Read More
Mar 20, 2014 Ready to be a Super Spy? Break Out Your Notebook As a kid, one of my best-loved books was Harriet the Spy. As part of her spy technique, Harriet carried a notebook wherever she went and wrote down everything she… Read More
Mar 13, 2014 Take the Sting Out: 3 Strategies for Coping with the Unkind, the Passive Aggressive and the Overtly Hostile Bizz Buzz—spring is in the air. And while this brings out the honey in many of us, there are those among us who are still apt to sting. With this… Read More
Mar 7, 2014 “Nerves are the Respect You Pay Your Audience.” This past week I was called in to work with a client whose primary concern was how very, very nervous she was at the idea of appearing on television. Her… Read More
Feb 26, 2014 “Humility is Not Thinking Less of Yourself. It’s Thinking of Yourself Less.”: Some Thoughts on the Blazek Debacle The above quote by C.S. Lewis is something I was reminded of as I sifted through the Kelly Blazek debacle. For those of you who haven’t been following this, Ms.… Read More
Feb 20, 2014 “But What If??” How to Handle Hypotheticals There is a Chinese proverb I’ve always liked, “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.” Unfortunately, however, proverbs only go so far… Read More
Feb 12, 2014 Don’t Compare Your Romance to a Rom-Com Some time ago I wrote a blog post titled, “Don’t Compare Your Behind-the-Scenes to Other People’s Highlight Reel,” The idea being that those people who are relentlessly “up” via social… Read More
Feb 6, 2014 When You’re Ready for Your Close Up: As many of you know, more and more people are conducting meetings, performing interviews and running their day-to-day businesses via Skype, Google Hangout, Facetime and the like– which means I… Read More
Jan 30, 2014 Watch Your Tone (and Then Watch Meryl Streep’s…) As those of you know who have read How to Wow, according to Albert Mehrabian’s UCLA study, 38% of your impact comes from your tonal quality: what your voice is… Read More
Jan 23, 2014 Confronted by Apathy? Insubordination? Outright Insurrection? Consider the Principle of Legitimacy I recently finished Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants (B/t/w if you haven’t yet read any of Gladwell’s books click briskly through to… Read More

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