Walk and talk . . .
Nilofer Merchant ranks at#48 in Thinkers50 2015. For her fabulous TED Talk, she rises much further up the list in my estimation. Catch her at “Got a meeting? Take a walk” – thinking outside the box at its best.
Category: talking
Sounding your smartest . . .
Vocal cues, reading aloud, phone conversations and in-person visits . . . apparently all ways to sound smarter than you might appear by only sending an email. Read Matt Richtel’s summary of The Sound of Intellect, research findings from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business: The Mouth Is Mightier Than The Pen.
The Bawtry Monolith . . .
In 1990 Adrian Hosford told his colleagues that their company was NOT in the telephony business. An odd statement, you might think, from the then Director of Communications for BT. So, if not telephony, what exactly was their raison d’être? Allegedly, it was ‘Reciprocated Confidences’ – the exchange of ‘confidences’ between human beings, leading to… Read More The Bawtry Monolith . . .
ChristineWilkinsonCoaching 