Archives for “Communications”
Tweet still kind of a trip when I see myself on tv. bizarre. but thank you to PBS for getting the dialog going. our kids are going to be OK IMHO. You can be a fan of Ernie Manouse on FB here.
Tweet I received two very interesting questions from a young man I met several years ago, passing through Houston on the way to some romantic big city (go ahead, get the whole NYC/LA/SanFran/Boulder/places-you-can’t-eat-but-feel-sexy/thing out of your system.) He asked for lunch and had two questions for me: 1) How do you personally influence people to [...]
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Tweet Guilt. Guilt is a major factor for me. It is something we Catholics specialize in. Sin is human. You must confess your sins. This is ingrained in you. You step out of the confessional and you glance at a young woman in your seventh grade class and her breasts are pressing up against her [...]
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Tweet From Meg’s post “Girl”: I told the girls that it is easy to fall into negativity, I told them that this is often something I am guilty of. I get frustrated with people. The first instinct we have to vent. Although every now and then we need to get it out there, venting doesn’t [...]
Tweet As the company has grown over the years, I have hit a number of tipping points that were unexpected and hurt the company. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a book that predicts these moments accurately and I know few people who have organically grown a 30+ employee 13 year old technology and [...]
Tweet Instructions for the protest were clearly disseminated on Facebook: Stand 5 feet apart, so as not to break Egyptian laws against public demonstration; be absolutely silent; no signs; wear black, as determined in an online vote; stand on the banks of the river or sea for one hour only, then walk away. No one [...]
Tweet An interesting rebuttal of the release of this year’s Edelman Trust Barometer on the PRSA blog by Elliott Schreiber: These data may be factual for the elite, but they may be the continuing “fuel on the fire” for those who feel they are on the bottom looking up. On the other side of the [...]
Tweet As someone who regularly recommends the book Absolute Honesty to people, I found this HBR post on Authentic Leadership to be very interesting: Most people can agree that authenticity is of great value. We’d rather be — or follow — a leader who is for real than one who is faking it. Acting in [...]
Tweet don’t be a d*ck Part II Part III “Skepticism isn’t teaching people what to think; it’s teaching people how to think. You don’t accomplish that by telling them that everything they know is wrong.” – twisted physics
Tweet It’s all to do with color. It’s all to do with round. With shape. Everything is color. Everything, you know, it must be do with orange. Not only with Orange. I hadn’t seen color. I’d lived in a monochromatic world. I can’t use color. I can do everything. (link) (Second video via Robert. Thanks!)
Tweet “The first step before anyone else in the world believes it. Is you have to believe it.”
Tweet Like the National Enquirer (who oddly enough just filed for bankruptcy), now everyone is willing to pay for stories. OK, technically it sounds like they pay the interviewee for use of images and video an exorbitant amount to avoid (theoretically) crossing that journalistic line. From the story on the Washington Post on Checkbook Journalism. [...]
Tweet (text cut from an email that will never be sent.) No, I am not trying to be rude. I am just trying to explain why I am not replying to your email. Please bear with me. The Internet is made up of what most people call “links”. In fact these are really part of [...]
Tweet “…I have no idea how to answer these questions.” Like, one question asked if I had access to a gun and so I wrote “Depends. What do you need it for?” – the bloggess
Tweet Lets start by pointing out that while email is efficient, it is a symbolic representation of what evolved as something much richer; face to face communication. The writing didn’t come first, speech did. And speech was part, just PART, of human communication. And any symbolic representation of an original is going to lack in [...]
Tweet The “Sandwich Method” of feedback was the first method of constructive criticism I learned as a young manager right out of university. You know it – 1) say something positive then 2) give the constructive criticism and then 3) close with a positive statement. Example: Mary, you are doing a great job on the [...]