The underemployed bicycle rickshaw wallahs saw me as a sure customer. Walking in midday sun, 95 degree heat and 95% humidity, is not a common practice. One after another pedaled up beside me to make his pitch. Always polite, I turned them all down. I needed the exercise. One persistent...
You don’t need a special license or degree to begin a sewing and alterations business, but it’s essential to build your skills so you can take on more complicated projects. High-value clients will want to customize complicated items of clothing such as suits,...
A tiny minority will join me tomorrow, and the next day, and the next . . . And that select few will begin to acquire the power, dexterity, energy, and charisma to grow into a bold presenter – at home on the stage, at ease with yourself, and facile with the material. You will b...
My knowledge of Biz Essentials has been hard won, from my own personal experience via the school of hard knocks (I’ve been self-employed since 2001), from studying like crazy (I invest heavily in ongoing education and have a master’s degree in Organizational Development) and from my exper...
We arefocusing on pronoun problems that come up in business writing classes. Take the test, and then check your answers. In each sentence, choose the pronoun that is correct according to the rules of grammar. After the concert please give the cash drawer to Lizzie orI / me / myself. ...
Lynn sharpened her business writing skills at the University of Notre Dame, where she earned a master's degree in communication, and at Bradley University, with a bachelor's degree in English. 129 comments on “Closings for E-mails and Letters” ...
Well, now I’ve ran three marathons (including an unconventional one in Alaska), visited far more countries than I had hoped to, entered and completed my Master’s Degree, and pretty much exceeded almost every goal I set. There’s only a couple of things left on the list, and I’m ...
Industrialization contributes to the quick increase in national and per capita income. The economic trajectory of developed nations reveals a strong correlation between the rate of industrial growth and the degree of national and per capita income. ...
Richard Haynes, Deputy Director, Risk Surveillance at the CFTC, and Nancy Doyle, Senior Special Counsel, share their thoughts on the proposals and why they are best framed as an enhancement of current transparency levels, which to a larger or smaller degree can build from an already strong base...
Dr. McGucken, who launched the ArtsEntrepreneurship.com program at UNC Chapel Hill, received his bachelors of arts degree in physics from Princeton and his Ph.D. in physics from UNC Chapel Hill. His dissertation on an artificial retina for the blind received several National Science Foundation ...