Older folks: You want them on that wall
Business school dean helps his audience reconsider assumptions, prejudices and policies about older people.
Reporter breaks “unbreakable phone” in front of CEO
The chief handles it the only way it can be handled.
Have you had any luck with “live chats” with senior execs?
Ford’s top marketing exec tried it today and failed, in my opinion. Executive communicators, what’s your experience?
New device makes it even easier to use PowerPoint!
The Blackberry Presenter—a new device eliminates the need for presenters to take a laptop on the road to make PowerPoint presentations. Exciting, yes? Well, not to everybody. “Just what the …
Senior executives shouldn’t be caught dead live chatting
Two social media bloggers kick it around with Ford’s marketing chief, Jim Farley, and everybody comes away looking pretty lame
Friday follies
Pour yourself six or seven drinks and groove with Mariah Carey’s acceptance speech at the Palm Springs Film Festival this week.
Some major conferences take place this month; others begin planning cycles
World Economic Forum in Davos, other big shows take place this month; and four global conferences are casting around for speakers
Why I like T.J. Larkin’s dangerous ideas about executive communication
As the editor of a journal and a website for executive communication people and the leaders they serve, it seems almost my professional duty to rebuke the notion expressed in …
Executive podcasting: how to make it work
At Hewlett-Packard, speechwriter Ian Griffin created a podcast the way you’re supposed to: He experimented until he got it right.
CEO communication with employees unimportant? Heretic!
Celebrated employee communication consultant T.J. Larkin believes supervisors should carry the communication load, and CEOs should concern themselves with other audiences.