In a podcast interview over at Vital Speeches' website, the CEO of FastPencil doesn't quite make an ass out of you and me, but he straightens me out on a few things, and takes me up on my bet that he won't be around in two years. Have a listen.
From an e-mail I just got from a chief communication officer
_____ is sending from blackberry. Please excuse typos, grammar, abbreviations and probable lack of clarity
Talk on the phone? I prefer not to.
These days, are 80 percent of your phone conversations rushed, choppy, awkward social disasters? Or is it just me?
I'm not sure people are getting worse in face-to-face communication thanks to the dominance of e-mail and other e-communications, but I do think we are losing the ability to talk graciously and gracefully and productively on the phone.
I've never liked the phone; you and your conversant have to react to one another in real time with the benefit of only one stimulus—sound.
And now that everybody sucks at it, I like it even less.
How about you?