How Deep Is Your Business Development Participation?
Within the engineering consulting markets, a knack for cultivating customers is as highly prized as technical acumen...
The Ears Have It: Phone Interview Mojo
I realize I am better at phone interviews than in-person interviews. I always thought this was a personal deficit, but after some dedicated inquiry, I have learned from mental health professionals and others in the psychological sciences that creating figurative or literal boundaries between two people can actually facilitate communication in certain cases.
Comparing the Presidential Candidates on Infrastructure
Whomever is elected president in November will face the challenge of meeting critical infrastructure needs with increasingly strained resources. While President Obama and Mitt Romney differ in their philosophical approaches to solving infrastructure and transportation problems, both have established track records of supporting needed public works projects and taking steps to encourage funding.
CHarEtTE
When we allow ourselves to think about our ideal versions of where we live or our most favored approaches to planning mainly in terms of "**I** want **them** to make this city more livable,” we can actually fragment the process itself [...} As individuals, we observe our cities and their systems and make choices about our level of involvement in bringing the change we want to see.
In Bocca Al Lupo!
What Not To Do Or Say When Communicating With Individuals From Other Nations. This is a short, first-hand collection of experiences which have precipitated a few foot-from-mouth extractions, not to mention plenty of chortles, winces, and gulps.
The Fallacy of “Social Recruiting”
Social networking provides a distribution channel for your recruiting message. For how long will the audience embrace the dopamine drip of perceived “connectedness” before it recognizes the constant stream of self-serving messages?