In 1996 during my Coro Fellowship, I had the privilege of having a guided tour of the White House by a senior administration official after a visit with President Clinton. As we toured the various rooms, the official told stories of Bill Clinton’s adeptness in communicating and his uncanny ability to connect with people. In one of those anecdotes there were over 100 people in a room and the president had to leave quickly for another event. Within 10 minutes he went through the room and shook everyone’s hand. The amazing thing was that afterward many of those people spoke as if they had a full conversation with the president.

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Bernard Moon  July 3, 2008

Jargon Watch

Welcome to InsideWork 3.0

“When Microsoft last week announced the launch of its new ‘hypervisor-based virtualisation technology,’ Financial Times columnist Michael Skapinker says, “I did not have a clue what it meant, but no doubt software people did.”
This is the thing about jargon… Skapinker writes:
Any group that works, plays or lives together develops its own vocabulary, often incomprehensible to […]

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Jim Hancock  July 2, 2008

The new look at InsideWork is more than cosmetic. You’re looking at Day One in the third iteration of InsideWork — reengineered from the core out to deliver our third generation of content.

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InsideWork  June 30, 2008