How Should You Be Like Mr. Rogers?

Mr. Rogers is having a moment, isn’t he? If you haven’t seen It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, I recommend it. Frank and I both relished the film, even though we didn’t grow up with Mr. Rogers. (We grew up before Mr. Rogers!) So, when I stumbled across the podcast Finding Fred, I dove…

Who’s Sneezing For You?

Yes, it’s cold-and-flu season, as those commercials about coughing-sneezing-and-runny-noses remind us. Incessantly. This is about a different kind of sneezing. The kind of sneezing that gets you clients. Or gets you promoted. Or gets you elected. This sneezing is about spreading your “ideavirus.” The concept comes from Seth Godin, who says it’s way past time…

Talking Too Much

You might know somebody like this. Advice columns have been full of questions lately about how to handle the people who interrupt you, talk over you, or just never listen to what you have to say. (Yes, I still read advice columns—it’s satisfying to spend a moment on other people’s problems instead of my own.)…

January 1, 2020

I don’t know about you, but I’m not a big one for New Year’s Resolutions. Mainly because I had a long history of resolving … and then reneging on whatever promise I’d made to myself. There’s something about a whole new decade, though, that seems made for a fresh start. (Yes, the purists tell me…

Tis The Season, Like It Or Not

Sometimes you feel all fa-la-la-la-la. Sometimes you don’t. I debated staying out of your inbox this week. Maybe you don’t celebrate Christmas. Maybe you do, and you’d rather mark the occasion without emails like mine. Maybe you’re too busy to even look at your email. By the time you stumble across this one it’ll be…