Are you having trouble getting the message out when writing an email? You might be doing it wrong. I receive large quantities of email each day, at work, and at home. I see a lot of faulty ways to write an email. Do you want to do a better job? Learn how to write a [...]

Do you think you influence people as a leader? Most likely you do. The first experience you will get when being promoted from co-worker to boss is that what you say is not trivial anymore. Your words are being analyzed and battered to pieces just to figure out “what you really mean” – speaking to [...]

- 5 Pivotal Points Often Overlooked in Hiring The hiring process is fraught with uncertainty. Making the right hire is no sure thing, despite the increasingly large array of sophisticated tools available to managers. We see job candidates scrutinized, resumes inspected, credentials probed, and yet when all is said and done the selection process is [...]

A Guest Post by Andrew Hall of Pounding the Pavement When I was 20 years old, I was put in charge of an independent radio station. I been working for the station for several years in various capacities, but my new title was General Manager, and it was now my job to manage a team [...]

Do you have green fingers? Can you make a plant thrive? Have you ever bought a plant and forgot about it? What happened? Have you ever planted a tomato plant? Did you get tomatoes, or did it wither and die? Have you ever bought an aquarium and wounded up with fish floating upside down in [...]