Sunday, July 13, 2008

Famous painting

Famous painting
Heather, a friend of a friend, had called me for counsel as well. But since she, her vet, her trainer, and her mother had all reached the same conclusion, and since the rampaging had stopped, I didn't give the situation much thought. (to be continued) This has been adapted from Katz on Dogs, which is being published this week.
Workplace expert Lisa Earle McLeod, author of "Forget Perfect," learned long ago that men and women share some differences in the workplace. Now, she addresses one of these differences the moment she begins a presentation.
“When I do seminars for men, especially middle management men, I have to spend a good hour or two validating what they’ve done so far before they start to learn,” she says. Men, McLeod says, take new information as an affront to their intelligence and become defensive. Women, by contrast, start to learn right away.

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