I've got a question for you: How are you doing? Sure, of course you're fine. Here's a follow up: How do you know you're doing fine? Tougher question, huh? What's that, you have a question for me? Why ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work in the service industry at a desk. I am often passed by people saying, “How you doing?” What is the right response? They really don’t want to hear a long reply, so I am not ...

In working with hundreds of mid- to high-level professionals each year, I’ve seen firsthand how difficult it is for so many working women and men to articulate succinctly and powerfully what makes ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work in the service industry at a desk. I am often passed by people saying, “How you doing?” What is the right response? They really don’t want to hear a long reply, so I am not ...

Drino* tells me that in the United States, he never knows what to say when someone asks, “How’re you doing?” In the country where he grew up, he says, the standard reply is something equivalent to ...