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My friend, Bill Lee, was on a consulting assignment, accompanying an outside salesperson as he called on his lumber yard customers. As they drove from job to job, the salesperson was honking his horn and throwing up his hand to say hello to the various lumber yard truck drivers as they passed by. On one occasion he saw a driver …
Every year the Merriam-Webster dictionary adds new words to its latest addition. In 2020, for example, they added the word slow-walk, which means “delaying the progress of something by acting in a deliberately slow manner.” And they added deepfake, which is “an image or recording that has been convincingly altered and manipulated to represent someone as doing or saying something …
Some time ago, there was a man on the plane sitting next to me who looked rather down. So I greeted him with a cheerful “How are you?” “OK,” he said. Then he asked, somewhat perfunctorily, “How are you?” “Great!” I answered. The man responded by saying, “You sound too cheerful for me. In fact, you make me tired just …
Difficult people are everywhere. They’re the ones who cut you off in traffic or buy up all the paper products in the store during the pandemic so no one else can have any. Or they’re the ones at home or on the job who zero in on your weaknesses, giving you too many critical looks or stinging comments. These difficult …
