Tag: professional life
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Bird by bird
6 ways to write like a writer Few people are writers but everyone has to write, even if it’s only an email to accompany their CV. Whether you are writing a social media post, a project report or a cover letter to a prospective employer, you need to get your message across in a way […]
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Distraction-free mode
Something beeped. It wasn’t my phone: no calls, no messages. Nor was it a desktop notification from my Mac – they’re mostly disabled anyway, and I’ve also muted all sound from my keyboard so as to enable distraction-free work. It could have been one of the smoke detectors, advising me that the battery needs replacing. […]
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#JeSuisCharlie: What communicators can learn
What can communicators learn from last week’s terror attacks in Paris? No matter what your position on the issue – whether or not the satirists at Charlie Hebdo were right in publishing caricatures of the Muslim prophet – the outcome of their editorial choices cannot be ignored. Extremism and satire make strange bedfellows. In my […]
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Harness the power of ‘no’
Reports from early childhood indicate that ‘no’ was my first word. Maybe that’s why I’ve never hesitated to say no in my professional life. Not because I’m a negative person. Rather the opposite: I’m quite positive about what I want. It’s been my experience that really positive things can come out of a negative. They […]