Amazing, isn't it? Where communication has gone in the last 20 years? When I started in the business, there was no internet. Faxes didn't even exist! Now I'm laying the groundwork to blog my Tweets, Tweet my blog and other things that would have sounded almost silly when I began my climb up the mountain.
In some fashion, Blogs are a bit of "back to the future". Back in '88, in my formative years the art of the business letter was still in full bloom. I look back on some of those documents and they're really quite beautiful. My late father-in-law, Mac McCalmont, the patriarch of the firm, was by no means a master of the English language. He'd tell you that himself. But the way he put a letter together was marvelous.
I have one I love to refer to - sent to a subordinate in the eastern part of the state. Basically, it was a "pre-termination" letter. The guy wasn't pulling his weight. The searing, courteous way that the gentleman was put on alert was at once concise and eloquent, yet damning and visceral.
Nowadays, we're reduced to communication via fleeting emails. Flimsy fragments of shallow prose. Our business communications are hollow shells of what once was taken for granted.
Maybe Blogs will change that a bit. Granted, they're a means to a totally different end, but, hey - you've got to put sentences together for a blog post!
This blog is my New Year's resolution. At the risk of sounding conceited I think I do have a lot to share. Hopefully, I'll be able to impart some of my experiences to you, to help you ponder, and grow your practice.
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