It’s becoming more and more difficult to sift the nuggets of true knowledge from the mountains of data thrown at us from all directions. Of course, we do this to ourselves to a certain extent, because in this age of unlimited access to information through the Internet as well as all the traditional sources, most [...]

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And does it matter? Today’s issue of The Globe and Mail reported that University of Toronto professor Sali Tagliamonte cites linguistic differences as a dead giveaway of a person’s age (OK, she didn’t say dead giveaway — that was my expression, which may even give away my age). Her scholarly journal Language Variation and Change [...]

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I started watching an interview on television, but I gave up ten minutes into it because the interviewer annoyed me so much I was in danger of throwing something at my television! Why? Well, here’s a summary of his technique. He would ask a question in a fair amount of detail, but before the subject [...]

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As I’ve been saying for the past couple of weeks, today I finally launched The Manager’s Journey. This program is the culmination of work and research I’ve been doing over several years. I offered the original program a couple of years ago to corporate clients, who sent their new managers on the Journey. But I [...]

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