How to Win Others Over

As I was getting ready to write this post, I accidentally typed the letter T in the Google search window. Not because I wanted to, but because my dog wanted to go for a walk and he knows the best way to communicate that wish is to bump my hand off the mouse. All dog...

Four Quick Speaking Tips

If you’re like me, you are drowning in e-newsletters and marketing emails, and if so, I’ll go out on a limb and guess that most of them end up getting deleted without ever being opened. Which means your Mail Folder window looks like mine – a bolded “Deleted Items”...

Sunday Business

Adam Bryant is on my list of people I would like to meet. He writes the Corner Office column in the Sunday Business section of the New York Times. Each week, he prints excerpts from interviews with CEOs about leadership, lessons learned, hiring, firing, and creating...

David Brooks, The New Yorker and Me

There is always a pile of magazines, newspaper and books on the floor beside my bed. In fact, this is what it looks like today. Most often, this pile consists of months of New Yorkers, dog-eared or opened to specific articles. In my recent recycling cleanse, I came...