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"Their shamelessness is quite extraordinary. Their denials are less than half-hearted. . . . The issue for American individuals becomes a moral one: how, in the face of this shame to which I am subjected, do I behave? How do I save my honour ( Read more... ) -
languishing in this waiting room of the world
"I’ve always found this a trying time of the year. The leaves not yet out, mud everywhere you go. Frosty mornings gone, sunny mornings not yet come. Give me blizzards and frozen pipes, but not this nothing time. Not this waiting room of the world."--C.S. Lewis in William Nicholson's "Shadowlands"
I am so ready for spring! -
Essential Negotiations: 12 Guidelines for Making Concessions
1. Give yourself enough room to make concessions.
2. Try to get the other party to start revealing their needs and objectives first.
3. Be the first to concede a minor issue, but not the first to concede on a major issue.
4. Make unimportant concessions and portray them as more valuable than they are.
5. Make the other party work hard for every ( Read more... ) -
Essential Negotiation: Salary Negotiation Tips
I am stealing this from my textbook and putting in my journal and adding it to "Memories", so I will have access to it in the future.
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Myron Liebschutz, writing in The Wall Street Journal, offers tips for success when job applicants must negotiate a salary package with a prospective employer:
- Delay discussion of compensation until after you have ( Read more... )
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are you right-brained or left?
Depending on which direction you see this dancer spinning, you are right-brained or left-brained. Some people can get her to go both ways. I can't. I see her turning clockwise.
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parallel lives
On the way back to DC, I saw a documentary about Osama bin Laden by Christiane Amanpour. Someone should study the lives of bin Laden and George W. Both share a lot of the same issues and paths to power, and the way they have gathered their advisors, that's also creepily similar. Ayman al-Zawahiri could be Karl Rove.... It's kinda frightening really ( Read more... ) -
I know you, I walked with you . . .
Last Friday, shadows and I went to the Met Opera House to see ABT's Sleeping Beauty. The reviews for this ballet have been really bad. I liked it for the most part. The second act was a mess and the prince's dream sequence was boring and muddled that I was distracted enough to look around and noted that more than a few people nodding off. A lot of ( Read more... ) -
philosophy of begging in the subway
I've ridden through many a metro system. The only one that I recall that had beggars, other than NYC's, was in Paris. My favorite is Toronto's, because the Canadians are so neat, or as far as my American perspective remembers. I hated Paris's, for reasons I don't recall ( Read more... ) -
our lives under Bush's tenure
The three biggest domestic disasters in the past six years since Mr. Bush has taken office are ( Read more... ) -
Leonard Cohen: "In My Secret Life"
I saw you this morning ( Read more... )