We’ll Always Have Paris

A few years ago, I got a call from a good friend. She and a friend were planning the vacation of a lifetime in Paris – did I want to come? I jumped at the chance and we started planning. My friends both manage projects for a living and I’m no stranger to the...

By Any Other Name

You know the quotation: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But our brains might process the sensation of smelling that rose differently if we named it something else. The power of names Verbal...

Why People (Don’t) Pay Attention

Whether it’s your spouse, your children, your boss, or your employees, at one time or another you’ve probably been frustrated because someone wasn’t “paying attention” to you. We can take in thousands of bits of sensory data in seconds,...