Who Decides Etiquette?

Last week I looked at common courtesy and questioned how uncommon common courtesy appears to be in our daily lives. This week after a traumatic experience at TJ Maxx, I am looking at etiquette. So first we need to re-visit...
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Common Courtesy is Not Common

Yesterday while taping a segment of Forum 360, I complimented guest Peter Lawson Jones on his ten year long ability to be responsive to email. He replied, “Its common courtesy”. Webster defines common courtesy as the politeness that people can...
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Your Input Appreciated!

I had an idea and created curriculum to address what I think is a need for individuals and for organizations as we move forward to a new normal world. Any input would be appreciated. Post-Covid University: Re-Invent, Re-Vise and Re-Visit...
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Is Cancel Culture All Bad?

I like “Cancel Culture”.  If you listen to some pundits on one end of the spectrum, everything is a victim of cancel culture. Some said Dr. Seuss was a victim of cancel culture although the cancelled books were not a...
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Were You As Bad As You Thought?

Yesterday I taped a Forum 360 for PBS. My guest is a national figure. I had prepped and stressed both an appropriate amount and an inappropriate amount for the interview. After the taping I went down a 17 hour rabbit...
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Too Much Tiger To-Do?

On the eve of Tiger’s most recent accident, covered non-stop on CNN, a FaceBook “friend’ asked, “Does the fact that he is a highly successful golfer warrant round the clock news coverage”? While at first the question surprised me, it...
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What We Can Learn from Dead Presidents

A couple of years ago I started my Dead President’s+ Valentine’s Boot Camp. To me the reason was clear. Past presidents and a few others like Prime Ministers can teach us so much from their words, how they said them...
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