I wrote this about 15 years ago. It's from the conclusion of a chapter I wrote for  a handbook on employee communications: The way large companies operate is changing. The decline of the hierarchical, militaristic...

People who work in employee communications often have an uphill battle convincing corporate leaders of the value of open, transparent communication. There's a big fear of communicating bad news or acknowledging problems in the business because it might...

A recent blog post by agent provocateur Penelope Trunk is headlined "The Internet Has Created a Generation of Great Writers." Says Trunk: "The best writers in the history of the world are graduating from college, right now." She points to Stanford...