Yearly Archives: 2013

We wish you a happy and safe holiday. In recognition of the holiday, the Point Taken offices will be closed from December 24 through January 1. We look forward to [...]

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and if you are like me, you have a laundry list of both professional and personal to-dos before 2014.  Productivity is the key to accomplishing [...]

As far as nonverbal communication goes, your environment provides observers with lots of cues they use to form impressions – and the state of your desk can be the basis [...]

Have you ever noticed how you notice things? Wonder why some things get your attention, and others pass by completely unseen? You can thank your Reticular Activating System (RAS) for [...]

Working memory is like a white board in your head. It’s a workspace, populated by new information we are learning, and old information we are currently using.  We pull together [...]

How many vacation days are too many? Unlimited vacation – that seems like winning the lottery, right? Collect the paycheck, and work as few days as possible. As an employee, [...]

We've talked about writer Malcolm Gladwell's concept of 10,000 hours - the amount of time it takes in any field of study to become an expert. Since that is five [...]