Santa can slide down that chimney any time he chooses, and he’ll typically receive a warm welcome no matter what’s happening at the moment. But when mere humans interrupt, it’s no laughing matter. In fact, it can be downright annoying. Here’s a recent email I received from Carole: Hello…. I always enjoy your newsletters and [...]
After my comments about Morgan Freeman ran in the New York Post article last week, we’ve had a flurry of response. But the most intriguing call was from an interviewer yesterday morning, Kathleen Kurke, who posed this question: “How do you exude that same executive presence when you’re talking to a client on the phone [...]
“So why does Morgan Freeman always get cast as the authority figure, the well-respected guy, the voice of God,” or as in his next blockbuster Invictus, the former South African leader Nelson Mandela? That was the question feature-writer Reed Tucker of the New York Post posed to me last week. I outlined 6 good reasons why [...]
If someone asked you to guess the most used word or phrase of 2009 what would you say? Healthcare? Economy? H1N1? According to The Global Language Monitor, it’s Twitter. “In a year dominated by world-shaking political events, a pandemic, the after-effects of a financial tsunami and the death of a revered pop icon, the word [...]
