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Word Choices — We — Part 2

In my first entry about the word "we," I argued using the words "We decided to…" often create ambiguity. I suggested asking yourself several questions to reduce ambiguity either when you hear those words or when you are about to say them. In this entry, I will lay out the case for when using the [...]

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Your Team’s Answer is Wrong, Part 2

In response to my post entitled Your Team’s Answer is Wrong, my colleague Bob Lee writes –  (You wrote) "The trainers passed out a copy of the correct answer for the case study to all of us." (emphasis added) The definite article the as opposed to the indefinite article a is a killer here. Had [...]

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Your Team’s Answer is Wrong, Part 1

I had a nightmare last night. I was reliving a workshop that I took during a prior job. I think the nightmare was triggered by a box of material I found in a storage area that contained documents from that job. I noticed the box was labeled "The Dark Years." I was a participant in [...]

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