Business Communication
The truth about your Facebook status update
It is not unlike a press release that your corporate self announces to your target market. via James Shelley.
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The writing process: continual but not continuous
Writing, then, should be continual but not continuous, for those who observe the differentiation between those two adjectives. You need to write frequently, but with fresh eyes on your project at the beginning of every writing session. I have to stop myself from writing even though I know I could
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They will be managing my retirement fund... and yours!
February 2011: dozens of MBA applicants at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business are found to have submitted plagiarized essays. February 2012: a dozen MBA applicants at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management are found to have submitted plagiarized essays. via Orange Crate Art.
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Thank a teacher!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaHJRLoCyWc] Merci, monsieur Kasabgui!
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The dumbest idea in the world: maximizing shareholder value
A Forbes piece on Roger Martin's book Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL. I have not read the book yet. But I definitely will. The expectations market is the world in which shares in companies are traded between investors—in other
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Astonishment exists per se. It isn't based on comparison with something else.
Granted, in daily speech, where we don't stop to consider every word, we all use phrases like "the ordinary world," "ordinary life," "the ordinary course of events" ... But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or
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When is the last time you saw such a CEO?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj7ZHrYL28M]
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On multiculturalism
In practice the culture of “Other” is often taken as an excuse for our indifference and our inverted chauvinism. The “Other” is no better in this respect either: he often uses his “culture” as an excuse to perpetuate rigidness, unwillingness to change and accept different standards. via Dubravka Ugresic On
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The social media bubble may burst
I suspect this may have less to do with any change in behavior on our parts or that of our followers and more to do with the fact that the Twitter universe is now so large. Already overflowing streams are flooding. The likelihood that even your most interested followers will
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Karaoke culture or the escape from the boring self
The idea of karaoke basically derives from old fairground mock-up photographs. An anonymous person sticks his/her head into the opening in a photograph and then, for a few pennies, buys the joy provided by a picture in the company of a famous person, wearing the costume of a
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Frictionless makes sharing meaningless
It is meaningful if I tell you that I really like the avant-garde music by Olivier Messiaen. It's also meaningful to confess that I sometimes relax by listening to Pink Floyd. But if this kind of communication is replaced by a constant pipeline of what's
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Declarative sentences: on speaking with conviction
with, like, you know, interrogative intonation. [youtube=http://youtu.be/LGAMd-tT6fQ] In an earlier post, Mali talks about what teachers make.