Listening Now Blog

The corporate world has long shown a face of serious interest in good communication skills and improving the existing skills of its workers.  I’ve sat in countless meetings with leaders (and the Human Resources people who attend them) who have earnestly spoken of how much they want to invest in and improve the communication skills of their [...]

Brenda Ueland was one of the most fascinating women of her time.  She died in 1985 at the age of 94.  She wrote one of the first “agony aunt” radio shows (Tell Me More), was married three times and had an affair with an anarchist who ended up leaving her for Isadora Duncan. She was [...]

I watched Freaknomoics the other night.  It’s based on the book of the same name and is a series of vignettes on various topics, all in some way, some very loosely at first glance, to be linked to economics.  I hated economics in both the degrees I did – I have a vague recollection of [...]

I worked in corporateland for a long time.  I loved a lot of it and was a good corporate soldier.  At other times, it felt like I was the carrot and my employer was the grater.   I was a true-blue ‘proper’ employee for about a decade before I made my escape and became unemployable by becoming my [...]