Archive for March, 2008

More productive meetings

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Dan Bobinski, in this article on more productive meetings, gives some good advice on keeping meetings tightly focussed. In this case, it’s about strategy meetings and how they should not fuzz into tactics.
He goes on to discuss the importance of good preparation, good wrap up, good follow up and how this is […]

When a hard line is the soft option

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Here’s another excerpt from Chip Scanlan’s article on Tools of the Trade: The Question.
Unfortunately, in all too many cases, interviews have become the street theater of news with both sides tacitly accepting their role. The reporter asks questions that may sound tough but provide subjects a variety of exit ramps while the subject pretends that […]