The Blog of Frances Cole Jones

Best-selling Author / Corporate Speaker / Business Expert

Archive for January, 2012

Distract Me? Distract Me Not

As has been thoroughly covered in the follow-up press of President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Mr. Biden’s fidgeting was enough to drive many of us (including, ahem, me) straight up the wall. While I understand from the follow-up reports that Mr. Biden was suffering from a cold, I’m unclear why [...]

`You Say Late, I Say Never (Or Do I?….)

As I mentioned in my first post of the year, many of us came back to work on January 3, filled with the zippity doo dah of New Year’s resolutions only to find ourselves stymied when others didn’t seem to be experiencing the same joie de vivre.  Today, I’m going to tackle a question sent [...]

Advice for Those “This Can’t Be Happening” Moments

I received an email Sunday night from one of my CEO’s who had embarked on an 8-day business trip only to discover, on arrival at her first destination, that her luggage was missing: clothes, shoes, medication, contacts, research material….You name it; it was gone. What to do? (Aside from double-checking the limits on your credit [...]

Work is Worship: “Slowly, Slowly, All is Coming”

Fourteen years ago I was traveling with my father through Sikkim, a land of many marvelous customs (Consider, for example, that their national dish is made with orchids.) Among them was a custom of writing on the cliffs surrounding their mountainous roads. I copied down quite a few of the sayings I saw there, including: [...]