Five top challenges in organizational communication
Communication is more important then ever before in helping an organization function smoothly and be successful in its mission. Here are some problems a lot of companies need to fix.
Author Archives: James Irwin
Fishbone analysis
The root cause analysis tool known as an Ishikawa diagram – popularly called a fishbone diagram – is a visual brainstorming method. It helps teams dig deeper to understand the origins of a problem.
Top reasons people resist change
People don’t like change in their workplace, and it makes them cranky and resistant. Here are some of the issues change raises and what can be done in response.
Journalist questions
Journalists are taught six key questions that need to be asked, and answered, for any article or news story to be complete and accurate. These questions can also help us create problem-solving strategies in a business environment.
Benefits of downtime
American workers are terrible at downtime. Over a quarter of us have never taken two weeks of vacation at one time. This is literally killing us.
Anne Lamott on writing
“Don’t be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.”
Design thinking
Design thinking offers a non-linear, human-centered approach using a variety of analytical, strategic, and practical processes to solve difficult problems as well as innovate new products and services.
Joan Didion on writing
“Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else’s dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.”
Content marketing strategy
These days influencers, soccer parents, side hustlers, designers, poets, and unclassifiable attention seekers are thinking about their content marketing strategy. Here are some tips.
Peter Greenaway
As I saw more of his films Greenaway became what could only be described as a “retroactive influence” on me, in that he solidified through example what I was already staggering toward on my own.