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Adapting Doesn’t Negate Authenticity

Adapting Doesn’t Negate Authenticity

Authenticity.  The word has great “mouth feel”. Like a grape that rolls across the tongue with a smoothness until you bite down and experience a fluid burst of tang and sweet.   I think when I first noticed the word “authentic” was as a kid in connection with names of...
Clearing Out the Information Fog

Clearing Out the Information Fog

Attention!  For ourselves and our audiences, attention is a finite resource.  To demand that someone “pay attention” is exactly that, a transaction. Something must be sacrificed in order to obtain something else. With infinite demands for our attention, how do we...
The ROI of Commendation

The ROI of Commendation

By Toni, Director of Writing Services Years ago, I was sitting in a class for public speaking in the small country of Belize.  The student on stage gave one of the most boring talks I have ever endured in my life; thankfully, though, it was only five minutes long....
Advocacy and burnout don’t mix

Advocacy and burnout don’t mix

Years ago, the corporation I worked for started laying off employees.  I did what most employees did, worked harder and kept a low profile.  Finally, my notice came.  It was for all intents and purposes an “amiable notice,” yet, it meant that my family and I had to...