… every day. Always.
Today’s “a ha” occurred while reading our Annual Report. And after groaning about Sam P’s $20M salary … I found enjoyment in the words my communication peers had paired…
<snip>”Business: Impelled by this new global arena…”</snip>
“Impelled?” thought I. Pray, tell. I have heard “compelled,” surely. But to ‘im-pel.’ This is new. Upon further investigation, I discovered (thanks to dictionary.com):
“impel means to urge or encourage while compel means to take action as a result of pressure or coercion; impel is very similar in meaning to compel but suggests even more strongly an inner drive to do something and often a greater urgency in the desire to act”
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