The old saw of don’t discuss politics or religion in polite conversation was brought home to me yesterday. Over lunch, I recounted to a friend a conversation I had had the previous weekend with some mutual friends. My lunch companion asked why I had discussed politics in this conversation so early in my relationship with […]
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Consider your various networks: those that are the new-age electronic variety versus the old-school, clasped-hand face-to-face groups. Are you using a mix of both? It really makes sense not to ignore today’s technology when it comes to connecting to and with people. LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook do shorten the initial conversation when you do meet
For the most part, presentations by two presenters are pretty predictable. they either tag-team it or do an in-line “you-go-first” variation. Same-o-same-o.But what if you looked at content? Mixed it up and looked at who was going to present what and do s pin on one of these techniques? At today’s DFW AMA luncheon in
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Being persistent to be remembered is one thing. to slip past that and into annoying, is quite another. Once during an internal interview with Honeywell, I made a point of staying in touch with the hiring manager. I had business reasons to call or talk with him, so I took full advantage. However, when the
Our colleague, Rick Rackow of EBAA Iron, just completed the American Water Works Association trade show. Here are some of his observations of this year’s show: “Show attendance, according to AWWA, was down only 3% to 6%,” he said, “which was surprising.” “Our (EBAA’s) traffic was light, considering past shows,” Rick reported, “but the traffic
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Our colleague, Sheri’ DuMond, of Pacific Biometrics Inc. (PBI) is on site at the AAPS (American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists) National Biotech Conference this week in Seattle. She will report for us as time permits. Before things get started tomorrow, Sheri’ told us this as she and her colleagues prepared to staff the exhibit and
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The lesson of how far we are of each other in degrees of separation became a reality last evening. And it was a lesson in recollection and “The 6 Degrees of Separation.” An alumni association friend invited me to join his cycling group for dinner. Now, Joe has been after me for a while to
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Yesterday I had the good fortune to be able to spend some time with one of Dallas’ leading business people, Gail Warrior-Lawrence. As a part of our duties as volunteers for the North Dallas Chamber, my colleague, Bob Trice of New York Life, and I interviewed Ms. Warrior-Lawrence for the NDCC Business of the Year
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Our colleague Corbin Ball was at the HCEA show this past week and filed a report for us. HCEA stands for the Health Care Exhibitor’s Association (www.hcea.org). This annual event is a conference between health care industry people who exhibit at trade shows and events and the suppliers of the exhibit industry. Corbin reports: “It
Watch this space. The Paris Air Show opens today at Le Bourget. This show should be quiet. With airlines asking for their orders from Boeing and Airbus to be delayed, the crash of the Air France jetliner in the Atlantic and the Boeing Dreamliner’s maiden flight not taking place until after the show, look for
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