by Tom Hailey | Dec 3, 2017
Be “hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.” That is Dale Carnegie’s advice in chapter 2 of his book How to Win Friends and Influence People written in 1936. Don’t you love how people worded things decades ago? I don’t remember the word...
by Tom Hailey | Nov 26, 2017
I am in cafés and coffee shops a lot. I think I am noticing a change of behavior by many other people there. For a few years it seemed that many, or most, people were staring at their phones or tablets and not talking with the people next to them. Now I am...
by Tom Hailey | Nov 19, 2017
I was sitting by the window in a restaurant on Main Street in Louisville. There was an open space between two cars in front of the restaurant. A woman stopped next to it in an Escalade. She was going to parallel park. I was so happy. Watching people park is...
by Tom Hailey | Nov 12, 2017
Have you sent an email to someone you know, and they didn’t respond? As the saying goes, you hit Send, and crickets. You checked the email address to be sure it’s correct. You looked in the Sent Folder to be sure it took flight. Days passed, and still no...
by Tom Hailey | Nov 5, 2017
Conciseness is not my superpower. Sometimes I use four sentences instead of one. I also have a talent for saying the same thing twice, just with slightly different words. I’ll just repeat the same thing. There, I did it again. Maybe you occasionally fluff up...
