In most of my email correspondence, I’m rather polite and somewhat sunny. I wish people a good day, morning, Friday eve and so forth. It’s fluff. Not straight to the point. However, you get a little bit more buy in when you start off with warmer pleasantries than […]
Despite all my writing digressions in the social media world, I like written workplace documents to be straight to the point. Actually, not only written documents but verbal reports as well. They can be humorous. They can be witty. They can contain an illustrative anecdote. But they should […]
When I was younger, I was a storytelling champion. I loved imagining and constructing new worlds, in part because I was an only child. I also needed an escape from my “Bronx is burning” surroundings. One special Christmas, my aunt gave me a typewriter and I joyfully wrote […]