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Jul 1, 2020
“Let the Beauty You Love Be What You Do”
The title of this blog post comes from Rumi, one of my favorite poets. Why am I thinking about this today? Well, my mother-in-law passed away on Monday and this…
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Jun 25, 2020
Gratitude = Grease
Hello Wow-types, I received lots of feedback on last week’s post. Many of you loved the idea of not having to educate others about how they could be less hideous.…
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Jun 4, 2020
When We Know Better, We Do Better
Like many of you, my heart aches as I watch the news. Like many of you, I believe in the right of our black fellow Americans to do more than…
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Apr 16, 2020
Pitch (Zoom!) Perfect
Now that the initial scramble to organize a daily home office routine has become, well, routine, many of us are lifting up our heads from the minute-to-minute-problem-solving of the last…
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Mar 12, 2020
Want to Keep Your Presentation Alive? (or Short-Circuit Your Sullen Teenager?) Take Questions Throughout
I spent yesterday working with four clients who are frequently asked to give speeches. One of the (many) things we discussed was the value of having the audience ask questions…
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Feb 27, 2020
What’s Your Intangible Cultural Heritage?
Hola from Buenos Aires, We arrived in Buenos Aires yesterday and—for those of you who haven’t been here—run, don’t walk: such a beautiful city, such lovely people, such delicious food……
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Feb 20, 2020
The Benefits of Being Childlike—Not Childish*
(Note: Childlike = innocent. Childish = immature) These past two weeks, I’ve been lucky enough to travel around the southernmost tip of Latin America. As you might imagine, it’s a…
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Jan 2, 2020
“Travel with It…” It’s Much the Harder Thing to Do: Welcome 2020
Happy New Year! It’s a privilege and a pleasure to start the decade with you. As those of you know who have been reading the Wow for a while, each…
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Dec 24, 2019
Wishing You the Kindest of Holidays
As Hanukkah and Christmas converge and Season’s Greetings fly, “Merry, Happy, Jolly, and Joy” are frequently in play—and all are delightful. Here in the land of Wow, however, we would…
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Oct 10, 2019
Know Your Softball Swing (Or, What to Do When the Topic is so Big it’s Easy to Strike Out)
As we close in on the 2019 World Series, it seems appropriate to write about softball swings—particularly as I spent yesterday with a client who frequently gets asked questions so…
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