How Assertive Are You?
I probably should not admit to this character flaw in a blog post where other people may read it, but ...
How to Talk to the Opposite Political Party: an Update on Primals
In 2020, in the height of the pandemic, I reported on some research by Professor Jer Clifton at the University ...
How to Time Your PR Initiative Successfully
Timing is of course everything in PR and marketing. I witnessed a beautiful example of this recently coming out of ...
Does Grammar Matter?
Does grammar matter? And did you have a teacher in your youth who insisted on drumming the rules of good ...
How to Interact with Audiences, Part Three
The third of six posts on how to interact with audiences. One of the consistent surprises for me in the ...
Presenting to the Executive Team? Here’s What to Think About – Part 2
This is the second of a three-part series on presenting to the executive team. During the pandemic, I worked with ...
How to Deal with Failure
Anyone who speaks, either professionally or for one’s job, experiences a failure of the attempted communication at least occasionally. The ...
The Pursuit of Happiness
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that ...
Remember: The Brain Is Still a Mystery
I write on developments in neuroscience frequently, and it’s easy to get carried away with the pace and nature of ...
We Must Hang Together, or Assuredly We Will Hang Separately
Neuroscience continues to broaden our understanding of how communications actually works, and to shift our received wisdom. Two studies that ...
