Saturday’s stage was the individual time trial, where you race one at a time, against the clock. The early riders departed with 1-minute time-gaps, the highest-ranked riders (who race last), with longer gaps. Only 8.7 miles (14 KM), in Dusseldorf, although it’s not what is called “a technical course” – meaning there aren’t a lot …
Well, it’s Tour de France (TDF) season again and I’m going to subject you to three weeks of columns about cycling because I love the Tour de France (all the grand tours, really, but this is the only one I can find on my basic cable). My husband – the reason my tiny little New …
Are you afraid of writing? I worked with a woman once who was deathly afraid of putting her thoughts on paper. When we met, she described her department’s new strategy so eloquently that I thought getting it on paper would be easy. When I asked her to repeat what she had told me, she offered …
Well, first of all, while I love the way the coffee smells, I never developed the taste for it. But the real reason that I never learned was because of what happened to my friend and colleague, Nora. Nora and I worked together many years ago. She was charged with documenting the steps for operating …
Do you struggle with writing your self-evaluations? I was talking with someone the other day who has her first job with a formal organization (as opposed to a small mom-and-pop). She loves her job but she just experienced her first performance evaluation and it created a little pop of stress for her. She had no …
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