From basement coder to leader

I’m reading Steve Jobs’ biography. What strikes me as interesting is the initiative he took in his youth. Learning, studying, building, trying. It makes me think of my 13-year-old son. Like any kid his age in 2012, he plays a lot of video games. Several years...

IT as strategic partner – leadership op for communicators

I just did a new post on the Communitelligence Communication Skills Blog. We’ve been doing a lot of work lately with IT professionals and last week a colleague put out a query about working with IT. It is obviously a hot topic. Some of what I talk about in my...

Courage is the key

An attendee in a session at this week’s IABC world conference said “all our employees want us to allow blogging. I just ignore them. What do I tell them?” A colleague e-mailed me about using Twitter. She was shocked that people were following her...

Gotta go through it

The other night the whole family was out to Ted’s Montana Grill for dinner. We were talking about one of my daughter’s favorite books, Going on a Bear Hunt. I realized that the theme in the book has great application to business: Can’t go over it,...