You Can Be Gold to Them Thar People If you were a fan of Bugs Bunny growing up (and, really, who wasn’t?) you might remember Yosemite Sam saying, “There’s gold in them thar hills.” You might also remember… Read More
The Elephant in the Room: Why, When, and How It Must be Acknowledged The last few weeks a number of my clients have had elephants in their rooms: everything from common-knowledge scandals to bobbing stock prices to tarnished reputations, have been in play.… Read More
Frances Interviewed on Authors Talk About It http://authorstalkaboutit.com/how-to-wow/… Read More
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
10 Things Not to Say to a Pregnant Lady Despite the media’s attentiveness toward various mothers-to-be it’s often hard to know what to say to someone who is pregnant (at least this is what I discovered during a recent… Read More
Spread it Around: Rules for Flu Season—and Beyond As so many of us know, it’s flu season—a time fraught with unexpected germ hazards. (Speaking for myself, I was laid out flat for a week with some type of… Read More
Trying to Make a Sale? Agree and Add Last week I was lucky enough to be asked to put together some scripts for one of my clients’ sales teams. Among the questions I was asked was, “How can… Read More
“Interview Wow” has been UPDATED-and (for one week only) it’s FREE Hello, hello, In preparation for the new year, I spent the fall updating “Interview Wow”: my app for the iPhone and iPad. As those of you know who have downloaded… Read More
Five Career Lessons From The TV Show Friends By Forbes Contributor, Maseena Ziegler There was a time in my life when I used to schedule my dates on a Friday night at 6.30pm in order to be home… Read More
“To know is to be ignorant.”— Or, “It’s 2013: Ask Questions” One of my favorite philosophers, J. Krishnamurti, stated, “To know is to be ignorant. Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.” I’ve been thinking about this in ways large… Read More