media coverage of etiquette

This article caught my eye because in my world travels, I have kept a keen eye on where rudeness runs rampant and where the population practices a greater degree of kindness and consideration of others. While all of France can't be categorized as "rude", I...

  Cynthia Lett was quoted along with other prominent etiquette teachers, by Bob Greene, in this article published today on CNN online.  What do you think?  Is the salutation "Dear" dead?  Do you disagree with any of the experts' opinions?     http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/29/opinion/greene-dear-dead/  ...

Can you get fired for cursing at work? By Alina Dizik, CareerBuilder.com July 25, 2011 9:07 a.m. EDT Even if you do great work, cursing can have an impact on your ability to get promoted. (CareerBuilder.com) -- If you're cursing at work, be careful. While it's commonplace to curse...

[caption id="attachment_1872" align="alignright" width="293" caption="Stuart Bradford"][/caption] I am sharing this article because the author makes important points about our society today and the expectation of courtesy even though we are taught by the media and other sources that courtesy is unimportant.  Please let us know what your thoughts are on this subject.

On December 3, 2010, it was published in Workforce Management Magazine that William McNabb CEO of Vanguard Group announced on his blog that the firm’s 12,500 employees can now dress more casually. "A few weeks ago, , William McNabb, received an e-mail from one of...

[caption id="attachment_1749" align="alignleft" width="262"] Sonia Cheng - New World Hotels[/caption] Because my formal education and early career centered around the hospitality business, I am very interested in mindset changes the hospitality industry makes in response to common sense.  Since the changes in a culture's etiquette come...

By Kathleen Baines, Columnist on November 1, 2010 Our generation has lost most forms of etiquette — it’s a bold claim, albeit a true one. I have my own theories as to why this decline happened — the substitution of old-fashioned methods of child-rearing with the...