Be Like Diogenes

Posted on March 30, 2009 | 0 Comments

Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who went about ancient Athens with a lantern in the daytime, looking for an honest man, was the most noted of the Cynics, a school of philosophy that preached that virtue was better revealed in action than in theory.

In the business world today we have the Diogenes of corporate greening.

We have greening evaluators, we have scoring systems that look at companies and their environmental performance, with special emphasis on carbon reduction.

The Diogenes of corporate greening looks for action rather than theory.

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Can you afford to ignore Twitter?

Posted on March 17, 2009 | 2 Comments

It has been quite a few weeks for Twitter. A $35 million funding round for a firm with 29 employees. More and more celebrities – from Lance Armstrong to Rachel Maddow and David Gregory to Britney Spears to Jamie Oliver – signing up. In the New York Times David Pogue’s glowing review, followed by last Saturday’s story on media Twitterers. A full page of the Financial Times devoted to an analysis of the phenomenon. Even Stephen Colbert had a segment on Congressmen twittering during President Obama’s State of the Nation address. This must be more than just the “tipping point”…

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Changing Our Game

Posted on March 11, 2009 | 0 Comments

The Page 2009 Spring Seminar theme, "Influence in the Midst of Uncertainty”, has resonances way beyond the bounds of the US. A kind of night blindness has seized the world. We’re edging our way forwards, waiting till we can see again. My observations of the international stage where the economic downturn is being played suggest we are beginning to discern our surroundings again.

The arrival of Barack Obama in the White House – an arrival viewed on TV by hundreds of millions around the world – has created a sense…

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Experiencing the Future

Posted on March 02, 2009 | 0 Comments

It has been a dream for a long time but last week saw the first assembly of the inaugural Future Leaders Experience program. Eighteen of the 20 members of the class of 2010 met in Chicago over three days in an intensive session which more than achieved all our hopes.

Roger Bolton first proposed the idea of having a high level, extensive development course for senior communicators reporting to Page members -- the Future Leaders of the profession. An initial investigation looked at the best way to construct a program and concluded that there was definitely…

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