Archive | May, 2010
How an Opening Statement Can Help You Avoid the Mental Electric Chair

How an Opening Statement Can Help You Avoid the Mental Electric Chair

I watch attorneys on Law and Order, and they’re always so articulate and prepared and captivating. Then I watch the show “Snapped” on television (the one my husband worries about because it’s all about wives who kill their husbands) and the attorneys aren’t quite as snappy. Their opening statements begin with something like “I’m going [...]

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The Chicken Little Syndrome

The Chicken Little Syndrome

Regional Bank Manager Chicken Little likes to walk in the hallways. She likes to look out the windows at the moderate-sized city below. She likes to smell the dust of expansion. She likes the fact that her bank is big enough to contend but small enough that she knows all the leaders. One day while [...]

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Crayons, Creativity & Productivity

Crayons, Creativity & Productivity

I sat in a corporate meeting staring at the tired, drawn faces of those around the table. Silence was filled only by the clicking of Blackberry keys until the moderator came in and started trying to dial the speaker phone to bring in some other zombies to this graveyard of a meeting. I tried to [...]

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