Stop Talking Early and Often Recently, I happened to overhear a job interview being conducted in my local bakery. (What can I say; it’s Brooklyn!) And what caught my ear was that the job candidate talked about herself for 10 minutes in response to her interviewer’s first question! She didn’t know when to stop talking, even Read More
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for Public Speaking and Atlantic Yards: Ask the Right Question
My friend Candace Carponter, who is Legal Director for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB), came over tonight to help me plan a media training, and offered to spring for Chinese food. So I called Szechuan Delight, and asked the woman who answered the phone for some shrimp and scallops with vegetables in garlic sauce. Here’s Read More
What’s In a Word? If It’s “Taxes,” Plenty!
Guess What — We Want Equality! NPR’s All Things Considered reported last weekend that Dan Ariely, the behavioral economist from Duke, did an experiment to see if Americans were actually in favor of the type of income inequality we’ve now got (1% of our population owns 40% of the country’s wealth, and the bottom 40% Read More