Why I Love Letter ‘B’

When a keyboard is connected to a projector to run PowerPoint slides, my favorite is Letter ‘B’. Hitting it causes the screen image to go black. The projector is still on and hitting ‘B’ again shows the last slide up. With a properly designed audience-centric presentation that has specific periods without any slides, ‘B’ makes … Read more

Why I Love Meeting Math – And So Will You

I thought by now there’d be no point for this rant. I started facilitating workshops over 30 years ago, based on time honored best practices for planning, leading and following up on workplace meetings. With the evolving workplace culture, new communication tools and the impact of technology, most meetings should have become obsolete, like manual type writers and micro fiche. Apparently, that’s not the case.

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Why I Love ‘Show Password’

Does this ever happen to you? Your entering your password on your phone or iPad with your finger or stylus, but you make a mistake and the site blows you off. You try again and still mess up. Then, the site locks you out for a period of time due to too many ‘suspicious’ attempts to log in.

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Titles Make Me Crazy

While skimming some LinkedIn postings recently, I encountered an author who was seriously title happy. After his name was ‘… MBA, BA, BS, NP, MPM.’ Wow – aren’t you impressed with his credentials! With an ‘MBA’, no need to include the BA & BS degrees. And while the ‘MBA, BA & BS’ are recognizable, ‘NP & MPM” aren’t. More confusing that impressive.

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