Thoughts on “The Credible Company”
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Last November, Jossey-Bass publishers released my latest book entitled “The Credible Company: Communicating with Today’s Skeptical Workforce .” Shortly after it was published, the bottom dropped out of the global economy and made that workforce both increasingly skeptical and increasingly unemployed.
The book had been fermenting in my mind and soul for some time—partly [...]
The Deliberate and Accidental Abuse of Language
Friday, October 10th, 2008One of the saddest things about political campaigns is the abuse of language and intelligent dialogue—the tendency to make words connote something other than their real meaning and to mask intent. Or worse, to disseminate outright lies. At this phase of the presidential campaign there’s plenty of both.
For anyone interested in truthful communication, this is [...]
Some Thoughts on Voters and Employee Audiences
Friday, September 5th, 2008I’ve just returned from a long and happy vacation at the same Maine coastal cottage my family and I have visited for the last 38 summers. It’s located right smack on the Atlantic on a high rocky bluff with a 20 or 30 foot descent to the water. It’s a modest cottage in the Mid-Coast [...]
Has Technology Affected Our Ability to Think?
Friday, July 18th, 2008The July-August issue of The Atlantic features a cover story entitled “Is Google Making Us Stoopid?” by writer Nicholas Carr. His thesis essentially is that our online proclivities are short-circuiting our powers of concentration and affecting our ability to focus. In his words, “My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing…I can [...]
Finding Our Groove
Thursday, July 10th, 2008A fascinating dialogue took place online a few weeks ago. The subject was the proper role of internal communication professionals in their respective organizations. It’s a subject that badly needs airing in a time when increasingly I believe that internal communication practitioners are losing their way.
The people that were engaged in the online dialogue are [...]