Book Short: Allegory of Allegories Squirrel, Inc., by Stephen Denning, is a good quick read for leaders who want a refreshing look at effective ways to motivate and communicate to their teams. The book focuses on storytelling as a method of communication, and Denning employs the storytelling method fairly successfully as a framework for the book. The specific kinds of messages he focuses on, where he says storytelling can have the biggest impact, are: communicating a complex idea and sparking action; communicating identity – who YOU as leader are; transmitting values; getting a group or team to work together more effectively; neutralizing gossip or taming the grapevine; knowledge-sharing; and painting a vision of the future that a team can hang…
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Email Articles This Week
Email Articles This Week I know, not a real inspired headline. There are two interesting articles floating around about email marketing this week. I have a few thoughts on both. First, David Daniels from Jupiter writes in ClickZ about Assigning a Value to Email Addresses. David’s numbers show that 71% of marketers don’t put a value on their email addresses. I think that may be an understatement, but it’s a telling figure nonetheless. David’s article is right on and gives marketers some good direction on how to think about valuing email addresses. The one thing he doesn’t address explicitly, though, is how to think about the value of an email address in the context of a multi-channel customer relationship. Customer…