AI and Communications: Practice, Leadership, Careers, Adaptation
People don’t adopt AI. They adopt new habits when those habits help them do better work, build their careers, earn trust, and stay relevant. Tools matter, but habits matter more. What sticks isn’t “adoption” in the abstract, but practices people are motivated to sustain.
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Creating a New Work Culture
Returning from a year of mostly remote work, for many organizations, means returning to a new work culture. One with new expectations, new opportunities, and new challenges, and one we can meet with purposeful reinvention to restore and reset.
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7 shifts in culture and communications that will mark 2021
A 2021 deck on trends. What a time to be alive.
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10 Reflections on 10 Years
In 2010 I started a new job, stopped being a Canadian Expat, settled in a new city, and began a new career. 10 years before that I did the same thing—minus the family, and as a new immigrant to the United States. These are some reflections I wrote at the time.
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6 trends to inspire your strategic thinking going into 2020
Making predictions at any time shows a faith of conviction that is hard to muster. Writing them at the start of a decade is even more ambitious.
So this isn’t that kind of post. Instead this post shares trends and themes that excite and inspire me going in to 2020. That's it.
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State of Digital Advocacy, ~2019
These core principles for approaching advocacy as an organization have been mainstays throughout my career. They work.
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Character
Character is both who we are and what we do. It shapes outrage, trust, leadership, and the stories we tell about people, companies, and power. In our polarized age, character is no abstraction. It's everything.
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Trust by Association
Every 10 years associations go through an existential crisis. This seems true, though the cycles have shortened. This post contemplates what's an association to do. This became the basis for an association strategy talk given at a national conference (Canadian Society of Association Executives).
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Happy Birthday, Websites
I wrote this originally on August 23rd, Internaut Day, the 25th anniversary of the first web page. Ten years later, this reads like a note from a more patient internet, one with more edges defined by website. Tomorrow: who knows? But it won't be the same.
