Business Communication Essentials, 8th Ed.
Chapter 3. Planning Business Messages
"You may be overflowing with talent and ideas, but you won’t start making an impact unless you step up and stand out, says political commentator Symone D.
"Do your brainstorming sessions create a drizzle or a flood of ideas?
Any work team can run these checkups to find out how healthy it is and get remedies for problem areas.
My Next Move helps you identify careers that involve the kinds of work you like to do.
Affectiva’s website offers several ways to try emotion-recognition AI, including mapping your emotions while you watch a YouTube video.
According to Seth Godin (photo, left), "We skew our thinking based on the first feedback we get.
Take the quiz at Saleforce.
"More than just lightly toasted, your brain feels singed.
Rich Bellis (photo, left), Associate Editor at Fast Company, presents the video on the subject.
"Jesse Rieser's memories of growing up in Springfield, Missouri in the 1990s unfold against a familiar retail backdrop: storming the aisles of Toys R Us with his brother; meeting friends at the mall to flirt with girls and play videogames; hunting new bands in the CD racks of Best Buy," writes Laura Mellonee in a piece at Wired.
Everyone can be creative.
"Allow your creativity to "flow" without judgment.
"Your teams assume they're talking about the same thing--until they realize they're not.
Tamara Kleinberg observes fellow customers complaining to her but not to the customer service agent and asks if your business is experiencing the same phenomenon.
"The idea is to live in the middle of ideas, believing in them enough to take action but not enough so they become too big of an anchor when something better comes along.
"The ability to think through problems to the second, third, and nth order—or what we will call second-order thinking for short—is a powerful tool that great thinkers use to their advantage all the time.
“No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
"Being able to constantly innovate means seeing opportunity and seizing it, but it also means knowing when to let something go.
Cailey Rizzo reports at TravelandLeisure.
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Mignon Fogarty, also known as Grammar Girl, offers a wide selection of easy-to-use advice on getting things right.
"What's the secret to making content people love?
"'The interview is an elimination process," says Dr.
"Get hired by thinking like the employer.
"In 1894, a New York Times writer warned against the dangers of riding a bicycle, predicting that it would lead to “weakness of mind, general lunacy and homicidal mania.