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Consider a Bold New Direction
By DH on November 18, 2008  |  Comments 0

Consider a Bold New Direction

During many interviews with corporations, organizations, and PR agencies—in addition to the media—in preparation to write my new book, The Media Savvy Leader, I found that not many corporate leaders are exchanging high-5s over the performance of even the largest global public relations agencies.

While agencies today, whether advertising or PR, charge hefty fees, many have [...]

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Cuban Seeks to Define Transparency
By DH on November 17, 2008  |  Comments 0

Cuban Seeks to Define Transparency

What would the typical corporate leader do if sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for alleged insider stock trading? Most would duck and hide. If ambushed by a reporter, they’d firmly say, “No comment,” and other dumb things.
Mark Cuban is not the typical corporate leader, and that’s one reason he is so admired [...]

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Twitter for Beginners
By DH on November 15, 2008  |  Comments 0

Twitter for Beginners

While I continue to wrestle personally with the obvious time demands of paying attention to Twitter, I am a big proponent of using Twitter to build their own respective groups of acquaintances who may share common interests. Twitter is an effective door-opener to meet new people, and to build our own level of awareness online.
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Obama Job Seekers Must Reveal All ... Info

Obama Job Seekers Must Reveal All … Info

President-elect Barack Obama and his staff apparently don’t want any surprises. As a result, they are grilling Obama administration job seekers with a thorough seven-page job questionaire.
Suzanne Goldenberg of Britain’s Guardian Newspaper writes:
Have you led an entirely blameless - or better yet, blander than bland - existence for your entire adult life?. Can you guarantee [...]

The Perfect Coffee

The Perfect Coffee

Every once in a while, I get completely off the subject of what I usually write, and write about coffee. I love a superbly made cup of coffee. It could be a latte or cappuccino or simply a cup of black coffee with non-fat milk and raw sugar.
It’s such a disappointment to enter any Starbucks [...]

Media Falls For Another Hoax

Media Falls For Another Hoax

To an old journalist, like me, the story never did sound right - an unnamed McCain advisor alleging that Gov. Palin didn’t know Africa was a continent. You, no doubt, have heard the story. I suppose one could say the media was taken-in because of Ms. Palin’s apparent naive grasp of the world, including the [...]

Veteran's Day

Veteran’s Day

It was the image in the New York Times of President-elect Barack Obama embracing Tammy Duckworth, a veteran of the Iraq war, that will create a lasting memory about this Veteran’s Day. Ms. Duckworth had lost both legs in the war, and today is director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs. They were at [...]

Focus, and Get Powerpoint Madness Under Control

Focus, and Get Powerpoint Madness Under Control

While helping an association a few years ago to initiate a plan to attract more members, funders and media, I remember attending presentations where one SVP had Powerpoint presentations of as many as 80 slides, each slide containing more than 300 words and complex diagrams.  Our eyes would glaze over.
Neither she nor her audience could [...]

Secrets of the Annotated World

Secrets of the Annotated World

Boston-based Chris Brogan, one of the new leaders in the world of how to use communications in Web 2.0, has written a fascinating blog post, Secrets of the Annotated World.
There is a new form of communications out there that is active and growing each day, and defining online communications for tomorrow … and trust me, [...]

Obama: Principles of Leadership

Obama: Principles of Leadership

Jack Welch, former head of GE, writes in BusinessWeek that Barack Obama won the presidency on three leadership principles: a clear vision, clean execution, and friends in high places. I would add that Mr. Obama was also consistent in purpose and message, and was not distracted … at least publicly … by vicious attacks.
Those tenets of [...]