by Monica Lunin | Aug 12, 2019 | Communication & Influence
“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention” –Hebert Simon (winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, 1978) We are living in the information age. You can no longer claim an advantage because of your specialist knowledge. Chances are, the people you...
by Monica Lunin | Oct 15, 2018 | Communication & Influence
Echo Chamber is a term commonly applied to the social media environment where we are fed the content an algorithm thinks we want to see. There are also offline, real-world echo chambers. They might exist in your organisation. How will you recognise the signs? What...
by Monica Lunin | Jul 9, 2018 | Communication & Influence
Misused or Reinvented? It’s easy to take the high ground. To snigger behind the back of someone who misuses a word when you know the correct meaning. In fact, as you scroll down you will see a shot at a very easy target. Superiority can be a nice place to...
by Monica Lunin | May 10, 2017 | Communication & Influence
Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing. -Oscar Wilde It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. -Joseph Joubert What is an argument? An argument is an adversarial exchange of...
by Monica Lunin | Mar 7, 2017 | Communication & Influence
Parliament is in session and I am both appalled and intrigued by the infantile behaviour of our elected representatives. Consider the challenge a speaker faces when trying to land a point whilst relentlessly assailed by verbal sucker punches from the cross benches. ...
by Monica Lunin | Nov 7, 2016 | Communication & Influence
Stop the abuse The 19th century philosopher and logician, John Venn, may be amused by the explosion of venn diagram applications in popular culture. There has been an explosion of social media memes and many are brilliant. I personally can’t go past the Venn...
