Welcome back to Episode #8 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is around memorable dialogues that we can create on the road. Just back from London and writing this from Toronto, I am fueled with energy from traveling. In this episode, I talk about making your interactions memorable and even unforgettable with the people [...]
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Welcome back to Episode #5 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Inspired by an unsolicited, inaccurate criticism that I received about my blog, I am devoting this podcast to my best practices on handling constructive feedback and harsh criticism in your life. If you are putting yourself out there, doing something you believe in and making [...]
Welcome back to Episode #4 of The Daily Interaction podcast. A lighter yet ideal topic for today: why and how to have fun in your interactions. I first define fun for us because fun can be misunderstood a great deal. Are you a fun person? How can you be heaps of fun while remaining professional [...]
Welcome back to Episode #2 of The Daily Interaction podcast. In this episode, I picked a topic to which we can all relate: having clarity in our communications and interactions. In today’s show, I focus on the interactions and communications that happen to us in person and how we can recognize the clarity – or [...]
What does an intense desire to connect with your readers, a passion to share a message and a lot of heavy-duty audio equipment bring you? It brings you Prolific Living Media, which is going to be the home for all things media here – videos, audio – and we are kicking it off by launching [...]
Entrepreneurship is like having children. I will explain. First of all, it is not for everyone – sorry if that shocks you on either side of the statement; the truth tends to do that to me too. The simple truth is that you must be made for them to survive and thrive. Much like having [...]
A labor of love has many hands and hearts at work. There may be one true leader for the effort but it is quite never without the support of at least a precious few others. My labor of love started over 4 months ago – with an idea. Ideas, I truly believe, are the beginning [...]
How well do you handle your interactions with customer support? Yesterday, an AT&T rep of all people put me in my place. I was completely out of line when I said she was not doing anything to help me. She was. I was also wrong when I told her it’s nearly impossible to isolate an [...]
When a single word brings you to a dead stop in your tracks, when a quote resonates so deeply with your thoughts that time gently slows down around you, when a book speaks to you so strongly you want to devour it in one big bite, take it as a good sign! It means you [...]
The incredible response to my last post has seriously thrown off my focus and made it nearly impossible to move on. I have written and re-written several drafts of fresh new posts – highlights from travels to Switzerland and Berlin, visits to authentic tea shops and seeing the breath-taking 3000-year old Nefertiti bust – only [...]
In every space, every aspect and every part of our life, it is listening – truly and intently listening – which is our greatest offering to anyone sharing our life or crossing our path. It is only through real listening that true understanding can occur. Do you think you really know how to listen? I [...]
Awesome content every time. Original content with value for your readers. Perseverance and persistence. Consistency and authenticity. Those were the repeated messages from the best sessions I attended. Knowledge and information which addressed not just bloggers but writers, creators, artists, and communicators alike. If you are any one of these, this post is for you. [...]
“We can do anything but we can’t do everything.” I used to believe I can do everything! By everything I mean my growing list of passions and aspirations from which responsibilities and commitments are naturally born. By doing I mean doing well, extremely well. It is either a job well done or a job not [...]
“Understand that friends come and go, but to a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps between geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.” A brilliant quote from Mary Schmich (later used by Baz Luhrmann in [...]
From the voice of a true skeptic who refused to join Facebook and give in to social peer pressure, I want to pay a tribute for the richness that Facebook has brought to my life.
I picked up “The Zahir” before leaving Tokyo airport in September. Paulo Coelho is a new author, the story line sounded adventurous and I had precious few options in the “English” or rather, foreign book section. I started reading it in Hawaii on vacation and finished it in the course of two days. Here is [...]
It was nearly two years after I had received “On Writing Well” that I started to read it. William Zinsser is not just writing a book on writing well; he is in love with the art of writing and using the English language. This passion comes through clearly in every page and invites the reader [...]
“Getting to Yes“ is quite possibly one of the best negotiation books you will ever read. First published in 1981, the authors founded the first Negotiation Program at Harvard Law School and have been successfully teaching their negotiation technique globally. I enrolled in a one-day course at my company. The course teaches the fundamentals of [...]
I met Sylvia Ann Hewitt at a leadership summit in California in May of 2006. She is a fantastic speaker with sharp presence. She was there to promote her book and also to speak to women managers and leaders about the topic of her book. I had a special invite to the event, and she [...]
Solving puzzles with Microsoft’s Cult of the Puzzle book. World’s smartest companies select the most creative thinkers.Being asked the impossible question in an already intense conversation better known as the “job interview”. I loved this book. I loved the puzzle focus, the questions, the brain teasers combined with the history of some of Silicon Valley’s [...]
“The more I understand differences, the more I like people.” These were the words our leadership instructor wrote on the flip chart the day we talked about our communication styles. Our subject that day was Laura Browne’s blue book, an insightful pack of surprisingly eye-opening material in just 158 pages.
In the eyes of Keith Ferrazzi, success – in our careers and in life – is all about relationships. Everything in our universe is related to everything else through a relationship. We must develop, establish and nurture our relationships in life. We live in a fast paced life and a connected age, where the day’s [...]
True leadership is recognized universally, regardless of bipartisanship, differences in style and strategy and desired outcome. True leadership is recognized by everyone, and we would be hard pressed to find anyone that would not recognize it in Colin Powell. Oren Harari does a thorough job portraying that character in his book, ”Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell“. Harari [...]
What makes one idea stick and another fade? What seeming intangibles do people with successful ideas grasp and implement better than rest of us? In a world where technology, work and media move at a maddening pace, no one wants to be left behind. And it is a struggle to get anyone’s attention – not [...]
“You punk, if you don’t know how to lose, you’ll never know how to win. If you don’t know this, you shouldn’t be playing.” – Grace Welch Jack Welch claims that his biggest influence in life came from his mother in the form of those words. When he lost a game of hockey at an [...]
