I’ve witnessed several workshops/keynotes/speaking gigs in the last few weeks that have had a bunch of “checking in” questions. You know the type: Are you with me? You follow me? Right? Does that make sense? Is everybody doing OK? and the cricket inducing Any...
On Black Friday, I stayed at home. Instead of fighting crowds, I browsed the web a bit and made a purchase at a place we’ll call Paper Clips with a coupon I found online. Pretty good deal on a pretty minor expense, but I figured to count myself as a happy...
As my daughter (age eight) and I were driving to pick up my son from a sleepover this morning, she asked a very innocent question: “How many boys are there?”I answered, “Six,” even though I didn’t have the foggiest idea how many really were there but figured in my...
Now that the elections are a week behind us and emotions have abated (maybe?) somewhat, I’d like you to look at what answering questions can do for your message. I want to be necessarily anti-partisan in this discussion and evaluation. From where I sit, this...
I went to Office Max early one morning — I had to get printouts (they do all my printing and do a fantastic job, by the way) for a speaking engagement I had later in the day. The web site said they were open at 8am, and I arrived about 753am. I drove by the...
I really wish I made this stuff up.My bank — let’s call them Walk-all-over-ya sent me a notice that the fee to access online banking via Quicken was going from free to $5.95/month. Since this is not a service I use, I ignored said notice. I do, however,...
