Adaptability of skills and responses – need we say more…
Not too long ago I was at a presentation in Ottawa designed to help attendees get a leg up on turning mingling into networking, while making good first impressions, in social encounters. It was led by a couple, ‘experts’ in the field of The Art of the Cocktail.
Rules of practical behaviour and etiquette, to some extent obvious but nonetheless relevant, included: (more…)
‘Out-of-the-box’ Goals to aim for in 2016:
The Rules – reputation:
(a) “If you do things that get you a certain reputation, when you come up in a meeting or discussion, you can get shut off very quickly. If you have a reputation for being difficult, if you have a reputation for threatening to sue people, if you have a reputation for not being able to deliver, then where there’s a discussion around a table, someone will say, ‘I heard this’, or ‘I heard that’, and they’ll go on to the next choice.” (more…)
the watch of time 
Freakonomics Truisms
Anyone exposed to the dogged philosophy of Freakonomics has probably been somewhat dazzled, or at least intrigued, by some of its revelations from ‘The Hidden Side of Everything’.
Since the best-selling, eponymous first book release just over ten years ago, to subsequent offshoots, via book, audio, and web site, it’s good to reflect on the basic tenets and perspective. (more…)
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