Warning! Grammar geek alert. One of my areas of expertise is business writing. Weird, I know, but with strong writing skills and a college background in journalism classes, I now help organizations figure out business writing. Grammar impacts a lot of things – even ageism in hiring. Let’s talk about how. At a recent association […]
Don and I had a great discussion this week about, “Do you ever look back at certain school or career decisions and think, ‘I wonder where we’d be if we had done this instead of that?’” Most of us have some lingering thoughts around different options that have come our way. For some of us […]
Stubborn, independent and self-sufficient. All of these are great attributes – if you are a rogue cowboy or hero in a movie, but I’d contend they are not such great qualities to have in real-life. Now are there strengths to these characteristics? Sure. However strengths overused become weaknesses. Let’s look at one of my favorite […]
During my travels last week, my mom’s 83 year old cousin was lamenting how her son sometimes worked Saturday and Sundays for his M-F, 40-hour-work week. I nodded at her dismay and said, “I think that’s just business in today’s world. You do more and more and it requires more of us.” A piece of […]
