One of my favorite things about movies and TV is when an actor comes on screen and just steals a scene away from the stars. These actors may not have a huge role, but they make the most of it and can ...

A surge of attention has emerged on this concept called character strengths, a phrase that implies a special, potent form of personality. In 2004, Martin Seligman and Chris Peterson edited a book ...

I recall a senior executive telling me in the wake of the financial scandals of the late 1990’s that you hire for character because it is not something you can teach to an executive. Agreed, but what ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In 2024, I authored an NBJ article on what the “New ...

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Vince Gilligan famously pitched “Breaking Bad,” the influential drama series that saw mild-mannered teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) become a meth kingpin, by saying: “You take Mr. Chips and turn ...

A matrix of dots used to form a single character on a display screen or printer. For example, an 8x16 cell is made up of 16 rows of eight dots. Character cells are displayed and printed contiguously; ...

A group of unique symbols used for display and printing. Character sets for languages that use the English alphabet generally contain 256 symbols, which is the number of combinations one byte can hold ...