Tina Lewis Rowe

Category: Personal and Professional Development

  • “Let Them Eat Cake” and Other Ignorant Things We Say

                                                                     Marie Antoinette didn’t say “Let them eat cake.”  I know the quotation attributed to Marie Antoinette is in error and she almost certainly…

  • A Preparation Guide For The Assessment Center Method: Be Your Best Self

    Can You Be Yourself In Your Assessment Center? Someone who knows my thoughts about how to best prepare for an Assessment Center copied a review of my book from the Amazon site and sent it to me, indignant over how wrong he thought it was. The reviewer gave me five stars and essentially said my…

  • Pluto Has Been Waiting Patiently To Say, “Pluto (Hearts) Earth!”

    What is waiting for you? July 14, 2015 will always be a date in the history of NASA and an important date for astronomers and all of us who are interested in the cosmos.  New Horizons, the NASA space probe, planned since 1990 and launched in 2006, flew by Pluto, the small planet, one sixth…

  • Why Don’t Managers and Supervisors, Manage and Supervise?

    Why Don’t They Manage and Supervise? The quick answer to why managers and supervisors seem to not want to be involved in problems, fail to deal with issues, seem oblivious to concerns and neglect many tasks that need to be done, is that often when they attempt to fulfill the roles of a manager or…

  • Moving Forward–Really Moving Forward

    In the book and the movie, The Shining, by Stephen King, author Jack Torrance types constantly on his novel and becomes more deranged as time passes. When his wife looks at his manuscript, she is horrified to see page after page after page filled with the same sentence: All work and no play makes Jack…

  • Monitor the Hackneyed Things You Repeat Repeatedly Over and Over Again, Excessively

    Hackneyed: A phrase or action that is used so many times it becomes commonplace and dull. My mother, Creola Kincaid Lewis, told me that her parents ordered her to stop making Egyptian-dancer hand gestures after she had done it dozens of times in one evening. Those hand gestures were popular with teenaged girls that year–1924–because King Tut’s…

  • Your Email Subject Line Should Fit the Message

    Another Email Etiquette Tip: Make your email subject line fit your message.  It is convenient to select “reply” to an email from someone, as a way to save the time of entering an address–and sometimes that is appropriate for a quick turn-around email. However, it is frustrating to be searching for a phone number, schedule…

  • Be Alert and Ready For The Moments That Change Everything

    Do you have a few times and dates permanently printed on your mind because, after that one moment or one event, nothing was ever the same again? You may have had no control over some of those fateful times–although you probably have retraced your steps to see which ones led you most directly to what you now…

  • Fresh Woods and Pastures New: Start With Your Work Space

    One of my favorite lines of poetry is by John Milton: “Tomorrow, to fresh woods and pastures new.”  The poet wasn’t writing about work, but those words certainly apply to the longing we sometimes have for a fresh start. If you can’t start fresh, you can at least freshen things up in your work space and in your mind…

  • Walt Whitman’s Thoughts On Feeling Like A Phony

    In the last few weeks several people, in different career fields and positions, have made comments to me about feeling phony, like a fake, and as though they are playing a part in a bad play. “Sometimes I feel like the biggest fake in the world.” “I feel like an actor playing a part. It wears…