Micromanagement describes managing by exerting control through excessive attention to minor details. If you’ve spent any time in management at all, you’re familiar with the old proverb exhorting us to avoid majoring in minors. The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80-20 rule, contends that 80% of effects result from 20% of the causes. ForContinue reading “Pitfalls of Being a Micromanager”
Turning Your Good Writing into Great Writing
What separates the good from the great? Hard work. Undoubtedly, some people in your critique group are able to write a better first draft sentence than you. Don’t be discouraged. Writing isn’t a sprint; it’s a marathon. Marathons are races of endurance requiring discipline, persistence, and stamina. Talent rarely succeeds on talent alone. Champions are made inContinue reading “Turning Your Good Writing into Great Writing”
A Brief History of National Turkey Day (part two)
Americans celebrated their first official day of Thanksgiving in 1777 after Washington’s victory over the British at Saratoga. However, the national day of giving thanks didn’t take hold until a few years later in 1846 when Sarah Josepha Hale, the first female American magazine editor and the author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, began writingContinue reading “A Brief History of National Turkey Day (part two)”
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