We’ve all been there before... You’re in the middle of a job interview, a coffee meeting with a potential client, a sales pitch, or just a lunch with a few colleagues and you start rambling. You go on ...

"However, when criticism shows up too often, it can slowly chip away at emotional trust." Understanding the signs you're ...

No one likes criticism. Even those who criticize feel burdened by their perceived "need" to do it. All my critical clients in the past 40 years have been at least intuitively aware that criticism is a ...

My presentation went terribly. I'm not cut out for this job. What I said was so stupid. People must think I’m an idiot. I'm a bad parent. I look so fat in these pants. These are just a few examples of ...

The reshuffling of the critical deck on the Times theatre desk wasn’t a singular event, but rather part of a broader move in the culture department there, affecting theatre, pop music, television and ...

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2008. xi + 317 pp. $35 hc. This book has been a long time coming. For those who have read Csicsery-Ronay ...