Communication is usually defined as the transmission of information.
It seems that every day brings with it a new way to pass information – some to varying degrees of want. With a constant stream of data and touch-points, when does it all become a blended and deafening cacophony of “noise”? How can one “squelch” out the static and focus on that which is truly important? How…
Is email out of control in your organization? Are you frustrated that your employees seem to be constantly ‘using email’ and not focusing on the important issues? At the same time, do you feel that the issue is not strategic enough to warrant your detailed attention – that it can’t be a top management concern? The…
At the end of the day, we are all sales people in one form or another. Whether it’s a child pleading their case for just a little more time to stay up watching TV in return for their best behavior, or a grown man/woman shopping at their local farmer’s market attempting to negotiate the best deal…
ByEd Giles
In the October 2007 installment of “Synchronization”, I wrote an article which gave an overview of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and the benefits of using the technology. Savings in time and paperwork along with the ability to quickly send and receive information are some of the best reasons to embark on an EDI solution. However, the one thing that needs…
I was in Barnes & Noble over the weekend and beheld a seemingly endless collection of business books. Whilst thumbing through them, I noticed a mantra that almost all of the ones I looked at had in common – it’s not necessary to be completely right all of the time. Later that evening, I was…
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass “When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the chards and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them… When I was sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much…
