My ex-husband’s parents had a business. A very successful family-run business, well established and respected, run in a traditional management style that had worked well for decades. In the early 1990s, when they belatedly discovered the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), it was as if they had discovered fire. It would solve communication issues! Make people… Continue reading Pigeonholing is for the birds
Category: Communication
The Better Copy Lifesaver
It’s the same old story: you start writing your communications or marketing material, and before you know it, you’re drowning in words. I know you are, because almost every day I get an SOS from someone who wants me to chart their course in composition, or make sure that what they’ve written is shipshape, or… Continue reading The Better Copy Lifesaver
Let’s face it: you’re not that important
Just recently, my redoubtable friend Joy, who is African-American, posted a picture to her Facebook wall. It was on racial “microaggressions“: words and actions that communicate an inequitable view of races other than your own. Joy has reason to post stuff like this, and I understand the hope that in eliminating microaggressions, we could well… Continue reading Let’s face it: you’re not that important