One style of communication is characterized by people taking turns expressing ideas and listening to what each other says. During the back and forth in this style of communication, people consider what they hear and they make new comments based on what the other person...
People who are looking for places to work and workplaces that are looking for productivity might be helped by doing the same thing: Concentrate on Basic Skills. Individuals, organizations, families, municipalities – even the Federal Government, now and then - are all responding to the need to...
In her memoirs, Catherine the Great wrote that people at court, intent on furthering their interests, impressing others, and staying ahead of, or at least in, the action, did so by talking a lot. They posed and plotted and whispered and held forth, all the...
Rudolph attended a two hour lecture on holiday travel. He is familiar with the subject so he found his attention wandering, and the speaker, while knowledgeable about the subject, was not knowledgeable about speaking to others, and was given to repetition of material that was...
So, the Tension Season is here. The emotional surges of holidays create lovely bursts of good will and well-being, but they can also lift some ordinary distresses into orbit. We have barely dug out the wrapping paper and already several people have presented Difficult Situations...
Voting is a happy event all by itself, but voting in the post-hurricane environment of New York this year was an exceptionally exhilarating experience. Many of our usual voting locations (schools) have been serving other functions (homeless shelters), so a lot of voters were compressed into...