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Nouns as Verbs and Other Language Pet Peeves
David via Compfight To me, language is about choices. I choose not to use buzzwords. I choose to write and speak in relatively straightforward manners. I just don’t read the work writers who routinely...
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Best Thing/Worst Thing: Writing a Book
I tend not to like anodyne things. My favorite bands, movies, TV shows, and books often have one thing in common: They polarize. For instance, I don’t know too many people who are on the fence about...
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Should You Self-Publish? My Forbes’ Interview
I recently gave an interview to Forbes about a wide variety of topics. Here’s a sample: What’s micropublishing? It’s important to distinguish micropublishing from self-publishing. That is, all...
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Visualizing Synonyms
I’m old enough to remember physical dictionaries and thesauri. I even have one of each on my bookshelf in my living room, although I rarely open these days. We all know the process. Open book. Look up...
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The 4 Pillars of Good Business Writing and Speaking
Originally published on Huffington Post. I’ve been on a reading rampage as of late, even more than usual. Blame or thank my iPad and bunch of long flights. That’s not to say that I read every business...
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The Perils of the Single Sentence
I recently saw the following text in a presentation about HR at Netflix: The actual company values, as opposed to the nice-sounding values, are shown by who gets rewarded, promoted, or let go. I agree...
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Why I Don’t Blog Every Day
Cross-posted on Huffington Post. Look around the web and you’ll find no shortage of advice on blogging. Long gone are the days in which blogging or journaling can be called a new phenomenon. WordPress...
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9 Things I’ve Learned as a Published Author
Five years ago today, Why New Systems Fail (my first book) was released. Since that time, I could call myself a professional writer. (A little over a year later, Cengage published a revised edition of...
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On Humility and Being “That Guy”
Few things irritate me more than a massive ego. Confidence is one thing. If you’re good at what you do, there’s no need to downplay your abilities. But we’ve all met “that guy” before–the arrogant or...
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The Skinny on My Seventh Book
For a long time now, I’ve observed many people struggling with business communications. (Truth be told, I wasn’t exactly great at it coming out of grad school.) As my career has moved towards...
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