business etiquette

Every day, the news gets scarier and scarier. As I work from home and worry about how this will all impact the kids, I have found myself not sleeping well, and often talking to my husband about a lot of "what ifs." But in the midst of all the uncertainty, I've also seen a huge [...]

I've written before about how much I love a good handwritten card or letter. So much so that my husband and I now run a handwritten note business. It's easy to fire off an email or text. But it's less easy to convey pure emotion that way. So I wrote a piece recently for Medium [...]

Guest post by Jessica Marventano So you just got invited out to a work lunch and are excited because you have been dying to try that new restaurant down the street. You cannot wait to try their signature dish! Wait – don’t make a rookie error. Make no mistake, a business lunch is NOT about [...]

Guest post by Jessica Marventano Many years ago I worked at a law firm where one of the partners never ever held the door open for anyone coming through after him. Never. Not even if your hands were full. He also wouldn’t even make the courtesy move toward the elevator “open door” button if he [...]

Guest Post by Jessica Marventano Most of us in the business world work for someone else – usually an organization. It can be large, like a corporation or a national non-profit. Or it can be small like a boutique law firm, communications firm, or some other service firm. Or it can be something cutting edge [...]