In a session today in Aspen at the Council on Communication Management’s conference, a speaker talked about taking a career mulligan. He asked everyone in the audience to think back on our own mulligans. My first, not my last, was a doozy. I was fresh out of...
Went to a tea party today. Aside from attending “Dan’s Bakesale” in the mid-90s to help “Dan” raise funds to subscribe to the Limbaugh Letter, I’ve never attended a true political rally until today. Some signs called out the need...
I preach a lot about connecting communication strategy and implementation to corporate goals. It’s a drum I beat nearly constantly. But, what do we do when the corporate goal is poorly designed, even irrational? A new study titled Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic...
I got a note from someone who read my last post wanting more details about what we talked about in that impromptu session last week in Vegas. First, I have to say it’s really funny to me that I hear more from people about my blog posts in e-mail and on Twitter...
On the second day of my Dubai workshop this week I asked what the participants most valued from the day before. A young Arab communicator who works for the local chamber of commerce said: “To ask questions before doing messages and planning.” Home run!...
Once again, I’ve enjoyed a very warm welcome here in Dubai. My workshop included 16 communicators from the region, with varying degrees of experience and capability. All were very participatory, had great stories to share and are experiencing the very same...
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