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Significant and Embarrassing Achievement

March 13th, 2025 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes some person has a significant achievement, but the resources weren’t approved, so it was all quite embarrassing. This is a true story that occurred in the last century. A person at work had a neighbor who worked at a different government agency. The other agency had a colossal failure with some […]

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Tags: Accountability · Authentic · Chaos · Data Science · Emergency · Leadership · Work

We’re Not Paying You to Be a Typist

February 10th, 2025 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips One of the reasons to use these chattering bot word generators is simply to stop wasting time. A typist is a professional who specializes in accurately and efficiently converting information into digital format. This may involve transcribing handwritten notes, audio recordings, or printed documents into electronic files. They also possess strong data […]

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Tags: Authentic · Change · Communication · Questions · Thinking · Work · Writing

One More Adjective, One More Adverb

February 3rd, 2025 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Often, with the best of intentions, groups of people writing something add needless adjective and adverbs. There is a group of persons. They are writing directions, a memo, something important or seemingly so. Someone, earnestly with the best of intentions, suggests, “We should change ‘calculate performance’ to ‘carefully calculate detailed performance.’” Just […]

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Tags: Authentic · Brevity · Clarity · Communication · Meaning · Reading · Writing

Facts and Adjectives

January 20th, 2025 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We can’t have both facts and adjectives. Can we? Facts are facts. It is 27° F outside. Adjectives are, well sort of fuzzy. It is cold outside. (Cold to whom? Cold compared to what?) “The fact is, they were aggressive.” Oops. “Aggressive” is an adjective. “The fact is, he is tall.” Well, […]

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Tags: Authentic · Communication · Engineering · Word

Useful and Recommendable

December 5th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Non-fiction books should be useful and recommendable. It is easy to lose sight of these qualities. A book by Rob Fitzpatrick is full of these qualities. I recently finished reading a book of simple fundamentals for writing non-fiction. “Write Useful Books. A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction,” Rob Fitzpatrick, […]

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Tags: Authentic · Communication · Consulting · Notebook · User · Writing

When the Audience Knows More

October 10th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes, the audience knows more than the designation teacher or expert. Great. There is much good that can come from this. Let’s discuss teaching adults or at least a situation where someone says you are the teacher and everyone else in the room is an adult. It is common for one of […]

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Tags: Adults · Authentic · Conversation · Honesty · Learning · Teaching

Specifics Usually Mean the Opposite

July 29th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips When someone is quite specific in what they convey, they often mean the opposite. “I will inject some humor here,” often means that nothing funny will be said. “I don’t care about the money,” often means that I really do care about the money coming my way. “We are transparent here,” often […]

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Tags: Authentic · Communication · Expectations · Respect · Trust

Hard Right, Easy Wrong

June 6th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I must have missed something in my life as the title of this post was very confusing the first time I heard it. I was being interviewed for a job. This was on the telephone. There were several people on the other end of the line. The principal interviewer asked me something […]

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Tags: Accountability · Adults · Authentic · Communication · Trust

Apology and Behavior

March 25th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I stumble on something that everyone else in the world has already heard. It is still brilliant. The only apology is changed behavior. I heard that on TV the other day. It seems that in various forms, it goes back to ancient times. It was new to me. Still, it is brilliant. […]

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Tags: Authentic · Change · Communication · Ethics · Reaction · Word

The Most-Heard Sermon of All Time

December 25th, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Three generations ago, an eight-year-old told us the reason for the season. The most-heard sermon of all time was delivered by an 8-year-old boy voicing a cartoon in 1965. Christopher Shea spoke the words below in A Charlie Brown Christmas. That sermon has been heard by millions or hundreds of millions of […]

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Tags: America · Authentic · Brevity · Christmas · Clarity