Archive for October 2013

No, I’m not eating candy. I’m performing research. How could you think otherwise? I’m hurt. After all, this is Harvard Business Review week in the Encourager and I can’t help getting caught up in all of the social science postulations I’ve been reading about. I kinda like it now. I’m learning that I no longer…

Nice try you guys. Yesterday I introduced Robert Cialdini’s six principles of persuasion and influence. I was honest with you that I hadn’t actually read his book; only an article about him in a Harvard Business Review I had picked up recently. But indeed, it was a long article printed in a small font (except…

True Confession Time. For three straight days at a conference in Maine last month I carried around a copy of the Harvard Business Review. Using it somewhat like an ego-boosting “5 Hour Energy” drink (only one costing $16.95!), I coyly displayed my HBR so passer-bys and new acquaintances couldn’t miss seeing it. I hoped it…

And you and I were on the guest list. Pretty cool, huh? If you heard Prince’s invitation on the radio to come to his party at a Manhattan night club, maybe you were struck by his sincerity and “come one, come all” inclusiveness. Granted, I don’t get invited to all that many parties – especially…

Take-offs on well known ads are rarely boring. (Unless they’re one of my feeble attempts.) But other school communicators have produced a variety of comical creative clips. I grin like the Goofy character in a Disney cartoon whenever I watch the kindergarten round-up video created for Otsego Public Schools by their communications director Holly McCaw.…

And no… please don’t start firing back with “Go Blue!” chants. I’m talking about you… me… and our mindsets as school communicator Spartans. But fine – here’s a wolverine for you. Don’t blame me if this image has absolutely nothing to do with today’s Encourager. I’m just trying to go along to get along with…