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You’re in your cubicle, minding your own business, when a coworker walking by stops to talk. Seems ...

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A few months ago, I did a podcast with Frances Cole Jones, author of How to Wow. It was all about ...

Yesterday while making small talk with the guy working the deli counter at my neighborhood grocery store, I ...

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Ever since many of us were little kids, we were told to never talk to strangers. While this was done out of a ...