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• Summer is not the silly season at work

  GASPE, QUEBEC -- It's amazing how quiet things are right now at work. Clients are away. Bosses gone. People on holiday. You can hear the echo. Even down the Internet connection. But I don't think we should be deceived. There's a lot that goes on in the Read More... Posted 02 August 2008 14:29 by David Ferrabee | 1 Comments Filed under: Change Management, New business, involvement, Engagement, marketing, motivation, selling, morale

• My first century: 100 books sold

  STARBUCKS -- Late last month some lucky punter bought the 100th copy of my book People Power . It looks like it was through Amazon -- as my revenue was less than 10% of the cost. But I am not complaining. That gives me my first century... in book publishing Read More... Posted 04 June 2008 10:04 by David Ferrabee | 0 Comments Filed under: Consulting, New business, marketing, social media, Technology, selling, etc., PeoplePower

• Doing business in South Africa

  A LONDON KITCHEN -- I am heading to South Africa next week to do some business. I have long been a fan of South Africa. It was a big part of my life in the 1970s when I lived in Kenya and my father reported on it for the Canadian media, and my class mates Read More... Posted 28 May 2008 14:17 by David Ferrabee | 1 Comments Filed under: New business, marketing, social media, Technology, selling, etc., Africa

• Internal Communications Forum 4: What we learned...

  LONDON -- We learned that there are many great minds in this business. Our fourth Internal Communications Forum was held at H&K in London on Wednesday, April 30, 2008. We had people there from GE, BAE, Shell, RBS, Pfizer, DPWN, the Learning & Read More... Posted 06 May 2008 18:22 by David Ferrabee | 0 Comments Filed under: Consulting, Internal communications, Change Management, Conferences, New business, marketing, selling

• Consulting bills and billing

  WORLDS END -- It's been a busy week with lots to talk about, so picking a single topic is a challenge. We had a good discussion about change and the economy in the business this week. I spoke on Thursday at an AURA conference on Social Media. We met clients Read More... Posted 26 April 2008 10:07 by David Ferrabee | 0 Comments Filed under: Consulting, Change Management, New business, marketing, selling

• Internal Communications Forum: How we learn...

  THE UNDERGROUND -- We have just had another one of those brilliant planning days. I mean that. You know how a typical planning day is like doing you taxes... by committee?! This wasn't like that. We never make these things easy. We covered everything Read More... Posted 11 April 2008 10:08 by David Ferrabee | 0 Comments Filed under: Change Management, Conferences, M & A, New business, marketing, selling

• Internal Communications Forum Q1 2008 -- Strategy in Changing Times

  DISTRICT LINE -- We are going to do this more often. Maybe once a quarter. It's brilliant. We had another IC Forum last week. Friends and regular readers will know that this is something we started in 2006. We get a bunch of our friends together, introduce Read More... Posted 06 February 2008 09:16 by David Ferrabee | 0 Comments Filed under: Strategy, Europe, Change Management, Conferences, New business, marketing, selling

• ROI: How do you measure communication?

  RICHMOND PARK -- We're painting. My 10-year-old is quite good. She's drawing poppies. And anyone who sees them would know what they are. As a medium, her painting communicates quite well. But then again, the messages aren't that complex. We are taking Read More... Posted 28 January 2008 09:58 by David Ferrabee | 7 Comments Filed under: Consulting, Internal communications, New business, marketing, selling

• What's new in IC in January?

  LONDON -- I am just back from 10 days on the continent. 10 lovely days. And it's cold, dark and public transit is my very own painful odyssey every morning. [Sigh.] January. Not so, however for Emma, who works down the hall. She bought a flat on the 24th Read More... Posted 07 January 2008 08:41 by David Ferrabee | 0 Comments Filed under: Consulting, Europe, Internal communications, Change Management, New business, marketing, selling

• Change & Internal Comms: What we've learned this year

  WIMBLEDON SHOPPING CENTRE -- I learned a few things this year. 1. Corn is acceptably deployed in a sandwich (with tuna, of course.) 2. Most corporate communications functions are delivering about 10% of the value they could do. 3. You can calculate the Read More... Posted 21 December 2007 09:01 by David Ferrabee | 0 Comments Filed under: Consulting, New business, marketing, social media, Technology, selling, etc., PeoplePower, HR

• The performing seal of Druskininkai

  DRUSKININKAI - As I finish my speech -- How HR and Communications can help deliver business strategy -- to a crowd of 120 CEOs and HR directors, I ask for questions? A man named Zydrunas stands up: "You have told us nothing interesting, but you are funny. Read More... Posted 01 December 2007 08:25 by David Ferrabee | 2 Comments Filed under: New business, involvement, Engagement, marketing, motivation, selling, morale, HR

• Communication in the newest of capitalist societies

  VILNIUS -- There's a dwarf holding up my table. Not a little person, but a garden-style gnome. Or one of Snow White's diminutive boyfriends. I'm not sure why. But each table in this restaurant/bar seems to have one. And with a nice view of the town hall Read More... Posted 29 November 2007 19:00 by David Ferrabee | 0 Comments Filed under: Culture, Internal communications, New business, marketing, selling

• "I am going to open my own consultancy..."

  ON THE BUS -- "...thanks for all your help and advice." I have had a few emails like that recently. Some from close by and some from far away. And I take them as a good thing. The more people in this business, raising standards, the better. But there Read More... Posted 17 November 2007 15:10 by David Ferrabee | 2 Comments Filed under: Consulting, Internal communications, New business, marketing, selling

• The best organisational change consultants

  DEEPEST HAMPSHIRE -- There's an ad in this weekend's Times for a job as an Organisational Change Consultancy Director. It's a US firm, that I know, trying to make the move here. And I wish them well. But it did touch a nerve a bit. 'Why do we need more Read More... Posted 23 October 2007 08:04 by David Ferrabee | 0 Comments Filed under: Leadership, Consulting, Change Management, New business, marketing, selling

• PowerPoint: The revolution starts here

  THE NORTHERN LINE -- I want apologise in advance to my friends at Microsoft , but I really don't like PowerPoint . When I got my first PowerPoint-bundled PC, I immediately uninstalled the programme. "Who would ever use this!" I thought. "Imagine putting Read More... Posted 02 October 2007 08:23 by David Ferrabee | 5 Comments Filed under: Leadership, People management, Internal communications, New business, involvement, Engagement, marketing, motivation, selling, morale