Writing Boots

On communication, professional and otherwise.

Get it? Got it? Good

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Please, please, please, please.

I can deal with any number of more wake-up-calls, ends-of-the-day, raisings-of-the-bar and takings-of-it-to-the-next-level.

But I can't take one more "gets it," as in "these CEOs just don't get it," or "this CEO clearly gets it."

Gets fucking WHAT? If you can't articulate "it," how do you expect the CEO to know what you're talking about.

Well get this: I dismiss anybody who says "gets it" immediately as a second-rate mind that divides the world into people who are born agreeing with his or her precious point of view and other people, who "just don't get it."

Twitter, unwitting

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An e-mail exchange today between two brothers I know, both about 60.

Brother One writes,

Tony:

On Saturday Weekend Edition, Scott Simon had a story on social networking.

The story made me look at Twitter, which I then unintentionally joined, and was then surprised to find you there, at [Twitter address] .

Tony replies:

Oh, God no. I don’t have any idea how I got signed up with Twitter, if, in fact, I am. It’s the last kind of intrusive nonsense I need. How do I get out of this?

Who can help these poor men?