Deep and meaningful conversations are a hallmark of successful managers of remote employees. But while a lot of managers are talking to their remote employees, they’re not learning anything important ...
Google Glass’s new demo video is impressive. The product is looking less like magic–the original teaser video made visual and experiential claims that just weren’t plausible–and more like reality. The ...
A “phatic expression” is a word or phrase that has no intrinsic meaning, but still conveys intent. It can be anything from the sympathetic grunts and “oh nos” that people let out, to whole phrases ...
A colleague from another department passed me on campus the other day, a week before the end of classes. “Hi,” I said as we approached one another. “Glad the semester is almost over!” she exclaimed in ...
Each week The Sun’s John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week’s word: ...
(How ya doin?) As you walk into a room filled with people that you have never met before…at one of those inescapable social ...
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, has much on his plate right now as Congress takes a grumpy look at his company’s role in enabling Muscovite malefactors to sway the 2016 elections. Yet Mr. Pichai found ...