by Alan | Nov 13, 2005 | Business, Communication skills
Worked with my in-laws’ Car Show this weekend. Had to laugh while we were cleaning up this evening when I ran across the classified ads for the bulletin board. One of them said something to the effect, “the car looks a lot better than the picture...
by Alan | Nov 12, 2005 | Business, Don't!
We’re trying to get our house painted. First, I couldn’t get anyone to give a bid. Now that I’m under contract, I can’t get anyone to work. After 17 days, we have our front porch half painted, the railings spotty, a missing extension cord and...
by Alan | Nov 11, 2005 | Communication skills, Delivery
Walked the floor of an Expo today. Loud. Mulitple conversations. People wedging in to try and get the attention of the demo booth attendants. Resulting conversations were one-to-one or one-to-few.Had some great conversations and some not-so-great ones. In several...
by Alan | Nov 10, 2005 | Business, Communication skills, Flying, Leadership
In aviation, an instrument in the plane (the altimeter) measures the absolute pressure wherever the plane happens to be. But without a reference point — the sea level pressure — the instrument would report an arbitrary altitude. Without this, Air Traffic...
by Alan | Nov 9, 2005 | Communication skills, Don't!, PowerPoint
I’ve managed to blog this far and largely avoid commenting on the best and worst thing to ever happen to communication: PowerPoint. But in the lineup of C-level presentations I saw the other day, after the refreshing PPT-less opener, it was DBP (Death By...
