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Topic: Ruth Sherman Associates LLC

  
Kenan Samms
COMMUNICATION   |  Comment

If You Want An Organic Garden, You Have To Expect A Few Weeds

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 92
Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 10:55 AM

I went organic the minute I moved into my suburban home 19 years ago. I didn’t want my young children playing on a lawn that looked great, but had hidden within it poisonous herbicides and pesticides. At first, the lawn and ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  1 comment

Bad News Bearers

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 91
Thu Jan 18, 2007 at 12:12 PM

Several years ago, I was meeting with directors at an international investment bank the day after the stock market had taken a very serious plunge. The bank coincidentally had just finished rolling out a series of sales training ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  2 comments

Mingle Well, Mingle Well

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 82
Wed Dec 13, 2006 at 5:16 PM

'Tis the season to mingle. Office parties and other business/social events abound. Many of us find this kind of exercise excruciatingly painful. It's tough, especially if you're running a business, to carve out the time to go to the ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Long Term Thinking

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 82
Mon May 7, 2007 at 9:02 PM

Recently, I got a call from a long-time client who had moved to a new position. There was a project that she wanted to bring me in for. It was right up my alley and I was appreciative. I needed info and in particular, to share with ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Professional Presentation Pointers: Part Three - Nonverbal Communication

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 82
Mon Apr 9, 2007 at 6:47 PM

Ok, you've gotten an assignment to deliver that presentation and you're well into the preparation process. You understand that preparation is key (read my 1st installment in this series) and you also understand that stage fright goes ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  2 comments

No Good Deed

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 82
Thu Feb 8, 2007 at 8:03 PM

As part of my professional life, I serve on boards of associations and non-profits. All of them entail some responsibility. This is a wonderful way to give back to the community and make deep and lasting friendships. It's not bad for ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Leadership: When My Fingers Do The Talking


Relevancy Score: 82
Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 10:16 AM

I've noticed a funny phenomenon when I type: My fingers sometimes type out words that are spelled similarly or may even be derived from the word I intended, but are not. I notice other people also do this. It seems to happen ...READ»

Kenan Samms
COMMUNICATION   |  1 comment

Leadership: When My Fingers Do The Talking

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 82
Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 8:18 PM

I've noticed a funny phenomenon when I type: My fingers sometimes type out words that are spelled similarly or may even be derived from the word I intended, but are not. I notice other people also do this. It seems to happen ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Leadership: When My Fingers Do The Talking


Relevancy Score: 82
Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 10:16 AM

I've noticed a funny phenomenon when I type: My fingers sometimes type out words that are spelled similarly or may even be derived from the word I intended, but are not. I notice other people also do this. It seems to happen ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Persistence Persuades: The Lost Art of Follow-Up

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 81
Mon May 14, 2007 at 8:06 PM

Have you ever wondered how some people get ahead in life? I know that I have. These people succeed in careers that they seem to have marginal talent for. They exist in every business, every profession. So how do they do it? They are ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  1 comment

What The Arts Teach Us About Business and Life

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 80
Tue May 29, 2007 at 8:04 PM

There is a lot of talk these days about education, what we should be teaching our children so they will be successful. A consensus seems to have arisen that math and science should be more rigorously taught and that the United States ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Professional Presentation Pointers: Part One

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 78
Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 7:39 PM

I cannot think of a better way to increase your status in your job, business or industry than becoming a skilled speaker. Standing (or sometimes sitting) in front of a group and presenting is a daunting prospect for people ranging ...READ»

Kenan Samms
COMMUNICATION   |  Comment

Music From The Heart

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 73
Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 9:12 PM

I’ve been learning about “el sistema,” the Venezuelan music-training program that has been offered to over 300,000 impoverished Venezuelan children.The brainchild of Jose Antonio Abreu, a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering who ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  1 comment

Leadership: The Big News About Small Talk

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 68
Mon Jun 11, 2007 at 10:49 PM

A client was complaining to me about how he hated going to his company’s social events. He felt that nothing substantive was ever discussed, work was pressing, and his time seemed wasted on discussions that centered on sports, ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Leadership: Listen Well and They'll Eat Out of Your Hand

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 65
Tue Aug 14, 2007 at 11:02 AM

It is well-known fact among communication professionals and scholars that listening is the most important and the most neglected communication skill. Of 4 skills that we use to communicate – talking, writing, reading and listening ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Leadership: 2007 Communication Successes Hall Of Fame

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 63
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 6:36 PM

Last week, I posted my Communication Faux Pas Hall of Fame. This week, it’s the successes that get the ink, profiling those who went the extra mile and communicated well. Unfortunately, to come up with my 11, I really had to look ...READ»

Kenan Samms
BARACK OBAMA   |  Comment

"Sweetie" And Sibling Terms: Never OK In Business

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 50
Mon May 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM

The dust-up over Barack Obama’s calling a reporter “sweetie” seems to have died down. So it’s a good moment to discuss what it means when diminutive forms of address are used in business and professional contexts. I admit ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  3 comments

Zombie Conference Calls

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 49
Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 1:23 PM

I was sitting in on a client's quarterly conference call. The call consisted of 3 members of this public company's top management team sitting at a conference table reading aloud into a speakerphone. The CFO went through the ...READ»

Kenan Samms
BARACK OBAMA   |  Comment

2008 Communication Successes

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 48
Mon Dec 29, 2008 at 4:24 PM

2008 Communication SuccessesWelcome to my 3rd Annual Fast Company Expert Blog on Communication Successes.  As with the faux pas blog that went up last week, successes were dominated by politics. In fact, I couldn’t come up with any ...READ»

Kenan Samms
BARACK OBAMA   |  Comment

A Stunning Leadership Vacuum

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 48
Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 8:01 AM

Since my topic is leadership, it is timely to comment on the goings on in the world of high finance. In addition, my base of operations is none other than Greenwich, CT, an epicenter of the disaster. Greenwich, as many know, is ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  16 comments

Death To PowerPoint!

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 47
Thu Jan 4, 2007 at 11:15 AM

I'm on a mission this year. A mission to expunge PowerPoint slides from all my clients' presentations. For a while, I thought it was getting better. People seemed to be using fewer slides, though they were as poorly designed as ever. ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Leadership: Hillary’s Laugh and Rudy’s Phone Call – The Inauthenticity Sweepstakes

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 47
Tue Oct 2, 2007 at 1:30 PM

What are we to make of Hillary Clinton’s recent tendency to laugh loudly and fully when being peppered with questions by the media and Rudolph Giuliani’s acceptance of a cell phone call from his wife, Judith, in the middle of an ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Professional Presentation Pointers: Part Two - Stage Fright

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 46
Mon Apr 2, 2007 at 7:21 PM

This is the second in a series that discusses what it takes to become skilled in the art of presentation. As I touched on last time, landing an assignment to deliver a speech or presentation can shake the confidence of even the most ...READ»

Kenan Samms
CHRISTMAS CARDS   |  Comment

Send Me No Emailed Holiday Greetings

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 45
Mon Dec 15, 2008 at 6:14 PM

Thanksgiving has become an alternative greeting card holiday. I get this because we're so inundated at Christmas it makes sense to want to beat the rush. I used to get actual cards in the mail. This year, I received some some emailed ...READ»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  1 comment

Everything I Need To Know, I Learned As A Jingle-Singer

BY Ruth Sherman
Relevancy Score: 45
Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 7:57 PM

Before I started my current career, I was a jingle-singer in New York. My job consisted of going to recording studios and singing commercials and doing voice-overs for advertisers. I sang for Coca-Cola, Ford, Clairol, Hasbro, ...READ»

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