Tag Archive: management

Jul 12

Got something to say? Pay attention to us first

This is the third post in my talking back to, and around, the Cluetrain Manifesto theses. Enjoy! As with my other posts in this area, I’m taking the Cluetrain Manifesto theses from all over the place. It’s a far more interesting way to theorise a contemporary workplace (and workforce) than simply taking it at face …

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Jun 01

On corporate conversations: who is engaging whom? And how?

What stories is your business or organisation telling? And who is telling it? There were so damn many ways I could have moved on from the last post I wrote, that it took me a little while to get my head around it. Well, actually, not too long considering I wrote this the very next …

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May 31

Let’s rethink marketing

Older generations have companies in a deathgrip. Because they don’t get what’s changed. A couple of posts ago I wrote about the fact that I am going to talk back to some of the theses of the Cluetrain Manifesto. I’m not going to do this in any sort of structured way, because that isn’t the …

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Sep 23

Why being nice pays off

Being nice is completely underrated, in my opinion. It is dramatically underrated in business, and it is increasingly becoming passe socially as well. While I don’t normally write personal blogs here about these sorts of things, it’s late and I’m winding down from work (yes, at 3.09 am), and need distraction. But also, just lately …

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Aug 03

Online publications: the issue of ‘respect’

There has always been quite a lot of palaver about the differences between online publications and printed publications. For the most part, these debates have tended to focus on specific areas: cost, environmental impact, delivery, readerships, marketing, and so on. In all of the debates there has been one key thing missing: the issue of …

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