Feb 1, 2026
The burden of communication
I often hear members complain about people not reading their resume carefully...
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Feb 1, 2026
Jan 29, 2026
The importance of being personal
I don’t know about you, but I can almost always tell when I get a thinly...
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Dec 21, 2025
The consummate professional
Although there is no truth to the rumor that I have a pair of wing tip tennis...
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Dec 14, 2025
To Whom It May Concern
One of the more amusing aspects of this time of year is the effort some people...
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Dec 8, 2025
Local candidates only
I know how disheartening it can be to get to the bottom of a job posting and...
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Nov 24, 2025
Abbreviations
I guess the desire to shorten just about everything is part of human nature. I...
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Oct 28, 2025
Attached is the file
Many of us pride ourselves on being brief. Being a financial person in part is...
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Oct 23, 2025
Can you hear me now?
One of my favorite commercials of all time was Verizon’s cell phone commercial....
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Oct 20, 2025
Demonstrating attention to detail
The world today is filled with more opportunities to communicate than ever...
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Sep 14, 2025
I’ve got you covered
We can all get a lot of help writing resumes. There are even lots and lots of...
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Jul 24, 2025
Kidnap notes
Sad to say, the typical email cover notes I see bear a strong resemblance to...
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Jul 14, 2025
Creating actionable communications
As you all can probably imagine, I get a lot of email and phone calls every day.
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Jul 13, 2025
The curse of the cover letter
To tell you the truth, I almost never read cover letters first. Perhaps you...
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Jun 18, 2025
Playing to an empty house
I have often wondered how actors polish their performances before the first...
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Jun 11, 2025
I’m smiling on the inside
I’m sure all of you have been to weddings and other kinds of gatherings where...
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Jun 10, 2025
Can you spel?
Some of the notes that I get from our many learned members fill me with dismay....
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May 22, 2025
The sploosh syndrome
Here in Connecticut spring has arrived and with it the beginning of the boating...
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Apr 17, 2025
Attention to detail
Attention to detail I am often disappointed by the correspondence I receive...
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Apr 14, 2025
How very incomplete of you
I don’t know about you, but the people who write to me and the people I call...
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Apr 13, 2025
Square pegs and round holes
When we review candidates for assignments being handled by The FECG, we try to...
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Mar 12, 2025
Before you hit send, think
One of those things about being on a boat that isn’t well understood by those...
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Feb 18, 2025
Some amazing things
Should I ever retire to do stand-up comedy, I can assure you that I have more...
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Jan 22, 2025
I’ve got you covered
I am fast coming to the conclusion that most people don’t understand the...
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Jan 13, 2025
The consummate professional
The title of this editorial is actually: “The consummate professional in an...
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Jan 5, 2025
Saturday Night Live!
I have been known to get seriously silly at times. (I know this will come as a...
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Dec 23, 2024
Catch me if you can
In 2002, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks starred in a movie about Frank...
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Dec 17, 2024
Keeping it personal
I am always mildly amused at this time of year by most of the holiday cards and...
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Dec 11, 2024
The failure to communicate
The story I hear more often than not is how perfect someone was for a...
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Dec 10, 2024
Don’t be lazy
In a sense, a sailboat isn’t a complicated machine. Compared with other means...
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Sep 19, 2024
Best supporting actor
I once wrote an editorial I called: Your resume stands alone
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Sep 17, 2024
After all we have meant to each other
A few times a week we get an “Unsubscribe” note from one of our members asking...
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Sep 10, 2024
Always do your best work
I have never quite understood why the emails I get are so sloppy.
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Sep 3, 2024
A firm belief in the Tooth Fairy
I hope I will not sound like I am in a bad mood or anything, but I have to tell...
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Aug 25, 2024
Making your emails look professional
I don’t know if you will agree, but I’m almost convinced that email is going to...
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Aug 19, 2024
Don’t call me late for lunch
I don’t know if all of you have noticed, but our new member announcement has a...
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Jul 24, 2024
Computers are here to stay
I sometimes get the feeling from the format of emails I get and the strange...
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To quote George Bernard Shaw: “The biggest problem in communication is the...
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Jun 24, 2024
Attention to detail
I am frequently disappointed by the lack of attention to detail by the many...
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May 14, 2024
Proper uses of boilerplate
One from column A and one from column B. Sure makes it easy, doesn’t it?
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Apr 18, 2024
You talkin to me?
Yes, I am talking to you.
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Mar 20, 2024
When in doubt, throw it out
I don’t know if your incoming snail mail is anything like ours, but we sure get...
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Mar 5, 2024
The sploosh syndrome
Life onboard a boat, whether sail or power, is in many respects different than...
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Feb 14, 2024
Helping out the competition
Over the years that I have been writing editorials, I have devoted a lot of...
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Feb 13, 2024
A few observations
I hope you all don’t mind, but I am going to ramble a bit tonight about some...
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Feb 8, 2024
Dropping in a little artillery
The truth is that even friends sometimes don’t get back to you when you call....
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Jan 23, 2024
Save the Nauga
I assume that most of you are unaware that in addition to being Chairman of The...
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Jan 10, 2024
There’s honestly no excuse
There was a time, I suppose, when it was really hard to get back to people....
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Dec 12, 2023
The personal, impersonal
One of the very nicest parts of the holiday season is getting greeting cards,...
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Dec 11, 2023
The CB Radio craze
I don’t know if all of you are old enough to remember the CB Radio craze, but...
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Nov 9, 2023
Please, give me a hint
Every once in a while I get an assignment for The FECG that draws more than its...
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Nov 8, 2023
Email cover notes
Based on the email cover notes I see, I’m not sure we have all made the...
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Oct 26, 2023
A fear of being contacted
Gosh, please don’t call me. That’s the message that I seem to get from time to...
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Sep 25, 2023
Dear FENG Member or Current Occupant
In keeping with the spirit of networking that makes The FENG a remarkable...
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Sep 5, 2023
Have you seen my glasses?
I don’t know about you, but I am always misplacing things. I work pretty hard...
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Aug 23, 2023
Junk mail
I don’t know what you consider to be junk mail. I view anything I don’t want to...
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Aug 10, 2023
By way of explanation
Whenever I sit and review candidates for assignments being handled through The...
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Aug 2, 2023
Are you serious in applying?
Let’s be honest. There aren’t a lot of job postings in our evening newsletter...
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Jun 20, 2023
Before you click send
The fun never stops here at world headquarters of The FENG. I get more amusing...
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Mar 26, 2023
Details, details, details
One of the most annoying things about us financial types (at least to...
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Mar 1, 2023
Beware the open microphone
How often have we seen a speaker tap a microphone and say: Is this on?
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Feb 6, 2023
The fine line
To call or not to call, that is the question. To write or not to write, that is...
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Dec 21, 2022
The consummate professional
Although there is no truth to the rumor that I have a pair of wing tip boat...
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Dec 6, 2022
Rules of engagement
I hope you don’t mind if I take a few minutes tonight to explain the best...
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Oct 12, 2022
Who are you and why are you writing?
I continue to be amazed and astounded how many emails I get every day that...
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I guess there has indeed been a total breakdown of law and order. Not only are...
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Tomorrow I will begin processing a rather large batch of new members. It is...
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Mar 15, 2018
When in doubt, throw it out
I don’t know if your incoming snail mail is anything like ours, but we sure get...
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