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• Read my book

  It's probably just an ego trip, but I am just finishing off the formatting of the last two years of blogging on change & internal communications, and I am going to publish a book. Not sure if it's a good idea, but you never know unless you try. Would Read More... Posted 04 April 2007 12:41 by David Ferrabee | 10 Comments Filed under: New business, marketing, selling, Internal communications

• Companies must learn to celebrate success

  ON PUTNEY BRIDGE -- It's 9:10 on a Sunday morning. And we are here for a reason. They're walking a donkey across the bridge. As one does. It's from one church to the other for Palm Sunday. My kids thought it was hysterical that the donkey emptied his Read More... Posted 01 April 2007 09:10 by David Ferrabee | 0 Comments Filed under: Engagement, involvement, morale, motivation, Consulting, New business, marketing, selling, Internal communications

• India – The future centre of the business world

  At the moment of writing there are 1,115,215,768 people in India. And that is growing by about 1 person per second. You’ll find quite a scary population counter here . It says there are also 6,643,694,634 people in the world – but that’s growing much Read More... Posted 24 March 2007 20:15 by David Ferrabee | 11 Comments Filed under: Culture, Consulting, New business, marketing, selling, Internal communications, Change Management, Conferences

• Social Media Forum: Who knows what'll happen?

  LONDON -- Tomorrow Phil and I present at Melcrum's conference for technophiles . It'll be interesting to see what kind of mood the whole thing has. I know late last year Neville Hobson (who is on before us) blogged from the podium, while waiting to present. Read More... Posted 20 March 2007 10:02 by David Ferrabee | 6 Comments Filed under: Engagement, involvement, morale, motivation, New business, marketing, selling, Conferences

• Global reach in Change & Internal Comms

  NEW YORK -- In many ways it has been a big week. Maybe I am getting too blasé about it. It's not every day you sit down with people from Asia , Europe, the Middle East & Africa , Canada and the United States and plan a new global business. But that's Read More... Posted 16 March 2007 11:59 by David Ferrabee | 5 Comments Filed under: Consulting, New business, marketing, selling, Europe, Middle East, Internal communications, Change Management

• The end of external communications

  OVER MOSUL -- Not sure why this flight goes straight across Iraq. It looks beautiful from this height. Like marriages ending, I am never sure how beauty and battery can coexist. I am reading some research at the moment for some client work I am doing. Read More... Posted 07 March 2007 16:24 by David Ferrabee | 1 Comments Filed under: Strategy, Consulting, New business, marketing, selling, Middle East, Internal communications

• BP & EMI - more in common than random letters of the alphabet

  I usually try to avoid writing about specific companies. Not least when I know the companies. And I know great people at both of these places. And they are equally, but different, iconic British companies. Lord Browne of Madingley was said to be the greatest Read More... Posted 14 January 2007 18:22 by David Ferrabee | 1 Comments Filed under: Leadership, Strategy, Culture, CEO, Engagement, involvement, morale, motivation, Consulting, New business, marketing, selling, People management, Internal communications, Change Management

• The longest year

  It already feels like 2007 has outstayed its welcome. For those who came into work this week it was grim. All week the papers have been full of photos of empty cafés and deserted streets . It seems, as one paper put it, that the people of Britain took Read More... Posted 05 January 2007 19:42 by David Ferrabee | 2 Comments Filed under: Consulting, New business, marketing, selling

• The secret of our success: The new world order

  This is the time of year when you get a bit of time to think about big issues. Like macroeconomics and geopolitics... words I have trouble spelling. It's been a really big year for Hill & Knowlton's Change and Internal Communications practice. We've Read More... Posted 30 December 2006 17:21 by David Ferrabee | 0 Comments Filed under: Consulting, New business, marketing, selling, Europe, Internal communications

• What is 'management'? And does it need consultants?

  I've been tonight to the 50th anniversary party of the Management Consultancies Association . It was a good event, filled with interesting folk. But the term 'management consultants' continues to sit badly with a lot of people. The MCA have a definition Read More... Posted 23 November 2006 08:24 by David Ferrabee | 2 Comments Filed under: Leadership, Strategy, Engagement, involvement, morale, motivation, Consulting, New business, marketing, selling, Internal communications, Change Management

• The environment, bankers and doom

  I don't know if you noticed, but Milton Friedman died this week . He was a small man in natty suits. But he arguably had a bigger influence on modern times than Alexander the Great did on his time. But won't be played by Colin Farrel any time soon. Outside Read More... Posted 19 November 2006 18:57 by David Ferrabee | 3 Comments Filed under: Strategy, Culture, New business, marketing, selling, Internal communications

• Sacked for blogging

  As we see more and more of our clients and other major businesses start blogging, there's always that lingering question: How far does the independence go? In our case at H&K it's fairly clear. Our Code of Practice has a couple of punchy lines, including: Read More... Posted 13 November 2006 16:35 by David Ferrabee | 0 Comments Filed under: Leadership, Engagement, involvement, morale, motivation, Consulting, New business, marketing, selling, Change Management Attachment(s): supportgarth-button.jpg

• A great big Internal Comms practice

  This was a proud week for a bunch of us at H&K in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. We gathered consultants from 14 countries, speaking 9 different languages... all of whom have responsibility for Change & Internal Communications work. We planned, Read More... Posted 05 November 2006 15:45 by David Ferrabee | 4 Comments Filed under: Consulting, New business, marketing, selling, Europe, Middle East, Internal communications, Change Management

• Chasing the pig...

  I'm on tour this week. I think we need to get t-shirts made up. They'd be crew-necks with long black sleeve and a Gothic cartoon on the front: The Chasing That Pig Tour . I am at a Change & Internal Communications conference in Barcelona. It's a good Read More... Posted 28 September 2006 17:54 by David Ferrabee | 1 Comments Filed under: New business, marketing, selling, Internal communications, Change Management, Conferences

• The Central Question

  With apologies to David Maister again. But when we last talked about this a few weeks ago , I was full of vim and vigour. This week, with rocketing London temperatures , and me with a nasty head-cold, I'm feeling a bit less buoyant. I am confused by clients Read More... Posted 21 September 2006 09:27 by David Ferrabee | 1 Comments Filed under: Consulting, New business, marketing, selling