“In times of stress, leaders tend to communicate less about more, when in fact they should be communicating more about less,” according to Deb Titus, from Dale Carnegie, who gave a Webinar at The Telegraph last week. Here are a few tidbits I jotted down during the session, all of which to me seem to [...]
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Aimed perhaps at iPhone marketing campaigns, iPhone users and, on a meta level, those of us slightly jealous of them (at least when those cool commercials come on)? Oh, and be aware there’s a bit of rough language at the beginning, just in case the kids are in the room with you.
As a dad with a six-year-old son, I have seen recently and recall from my own childhood how boys gravitate toward fantasy violence, whether in video games, books, movies, or imaginative play in the backyard with toys as simple as stick-swords in the hands of diminutive swashbucklers. Boys write stories about battles, and draw pictures [...]
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I won tickets to Sesame Street Live in Lowell tonight and we took the kids – and now I get why parents brave traffic, the risk of tired kid melt-downs, expensive concession stands and all the rest of the challenges presented by packing up the family and trucking off to a nighttime spectacular. All of [...]
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Via Greenflame – Check out this post by Kevin Kelly on "Neo-Amish Digital Dropouts." Seems like the closer you are to totally plugged in, the closer you'd be to wishing to unplug entirely. In my life it feels like I ride through surges of intense connectivity followed by spates of odd revulsion to being so [...]
Via the LanguageHat blog: David Crystal of the UK Guardian writes: "Research has made it clear that the early media hysteria about the novelty (and thus the dangers) of text messaging was misplaced. In one American study, less than 20% of the text messages looked at showed abbreviated forms of any kind – about three [...]
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And it seems, very little respect for the beliefs and traditions of other people. These would be traits one would expect to be present in greater quality and quanity in a professional religion writer. Washington Post/Newsweek writer Sally Quinn on taking communion at Tim Russert's funeral: "Last Wednesday at Tim's funeral mass at [Holy]Trinity Church [...]
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