Mention to some people that you blog and an accusatory stare springs to their face — as if you have departed the planet and returned with green antennae. Even suggest in polite English company of-a-certain-age that you use any kind of computer gadgetry and you are confined to the tradesman’s entrance of their interest for [...]

The meek shall indeed inherit the earth — it’s official. Cockiness, conceit, brashness, presumption, brazenness, self-assertion, bumptiousness, flagrancy, haughtiness, brassiness, disdain. Call it what you will, arrogance isn’t just an unpleasant personality trait, it’s plain bad for business. A landmark study, Arrogance: A Formula for Failure? co-authored by Stanley B. Silverman, Dean of the University [...]