How to Teach AI to Write in Your Exec's Voice (Intellicomms)
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2d ago
? In case you missed my most recent articles on how to use artificial intelligence to level up in your role: How to Get Your Team on Board With AI (Intellicomms) (?) Four AI Personas That Support Internal Comms (Intellicomms) (?) See all Intellicomms articles DALL-E generated this thematic image inspired by the personalities of the four famous people featured in this essay. ? Breaking news! Generative AI tools are imperfect! ? But that doesn’t mean they can’t be improved. By now we know that when you prompt a chatbot (like Copilot, ChatGPT) the output is dull. The simpler your prompt ..read more
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CEO Congratulates Employees for Trouncing the Competition (Insider Comms From Citadel)
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2w ago
Nick Offerman plays Citadel CEO Ken Griffin in Dumb Money (2023) Here’s a change of pace: an executive memo about good news. Last year Citadel brought in so much money the hedge fund doubled its lead over the nearest competition. The record year lifted Citadel’s all-time gains to $74 billion, nearly $20 billion more than its rivals D.E. Shaw and Millennium. Imagine working for a company that so obviously dominates your rivals. Founder and CEO Ken Griffin was gleeful, sending a congratulatory note to employees with the chest-thumping subject line: “Citadel Widens Lead as Most Profitable H ..read more
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Why and How to Do a Chatroom Ask Me Anything Session
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3w ago
? Congrats to Jo and Sharmayne, who each unlocked a free month of Mister Editorial by inviting colleagues to sign up for this newsletter. Check out the leaderboard and get your referral link. “The Conversation” (c. 1889) by Edgar Degas Employees crave interaction with leaders. Individual contributors want to hear more (and more often) from executives about the company’s strategy for growth, opinions on evolving market conditions, their leadership styles, and who they are outside the office. Remember our privileged position. Most employees don’t work in proximity to decision-makers. Field a ..read more
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Four AI Personas That Support Internal Comms (Intellicomms)
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? Heads up! Tomorrow (Feb 28) I’m appearing at Simpplr’s Internal Communications Virtual Summit. I will provide a walk-through on how to use specific AI tools to tackle a major comms project. Register for free. Out now: I authored a cheat sheet for Simpplr that teaches you how to optimize prompts for five common comms tasks. The internal communications professional wears many hats. Your role changes throughout the week and even throughout the day. This is comms, after all. We wear many hats. Sometimes you are the creator. Sometimes you’re the strategist. Sometimes you’re the boss. Some ..read more
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When Leadership Tries to Get Ahead of a Union Movement (Insider Comms From Costco)
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? Heads up! I’m appearing at Simpplr’s Internal Communications Virtual Summit (Feb 28-9). My slot is called “Intellicomms Unveiled: Harnessing AI in Mixternal Communications.” Register for free. A couple of months ago in Poppulo’s annual prediction article, I forecast momentum behind the small-ish but vocal union efforts in the U.S. gathering steam across industries this year. (If you think unionization is an issue reserved for Fortune 500 companies, think again.) I wrote: Union successes in 2023 at spotlight-grabbing companies like Amazon, Starbucks, UPS, and the Big Three auto companies ..read more
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When the CCO(!) Steps Down (Insider Comms From Warner Bros. Discovery)
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2M ago
Sometimes our boss leaves. Actually, about every five years our boss leaves; the average tenure of a Chief Communications Officer at Fortune 500 companies is just under five years. Right on time Nathaniel Brown, CCO at Warner Bros. Discovery, announced he’s leaving the Hollywood studio after … five years in the role. [Mister Editorial readers pause to reflect on how long their CCO has been at the helm…?] Brown led comms for Discovery when it merged with WarnerMedia. Before that he was at 21st Century Fox and News Corp. Compare Brown’s letter to that of another C-suite executive who deci ..read more
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How to Get Your Team on Board With AI (Intellicomms)
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2M ago
? Heads up! I’m appearing at Simpplr’s Internal Communications Virtual Summit (Feb 28-9). My slot is called “Intellicomms Unveiled: Harnessing AI in Mixternal Communications.” Register for free. All aboard! This image was created using DALL-E with the prompt, “a scene depicting people on a dock waiting to board a ship in the style of Paul Cézanne” It’s always about money. Artificial intelligence is here to stay not because it’s cool or fun or makes life easier. (It’s all that.) AI is here to stay because it will make or save more money. As datasets, computer models, and computing power imp ..read more
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When the CEO Asks Employees to Blur Work and Life (Insider Comms From Wayfair)
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2M ago
Wayfair employees can shop on their website for comfortable seating, so they can work longer hours. Insider Comms brings you the good, the bad, and the ugly of internal memos. Wayfair CEO Nijal Shah’s recent memo to employees earns a spot in our hall of fame for being both bad and ugly. Alt. subtitle for this post: How Not to Motivate Employees In mid-December Shah sent a clunky memo (below) to all employees letting them know that, despite the company “winning,” there is “still some work to do to make sure that we get fully back.” Fully back to what? Shah doesn’t answer, but apparently ..read more
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2023 Wasn't Slow Enough. 2024 Will Be Assiduous.
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3M ago
If I could ask Santa for one gift it’d be that you share Mister Editorial with your colleagues. But Santa’s not real. So what I genuinely want for the holidays is for you to have fulfillment at work. Our job is demanding, relentless, and often overlooked. But I see you. And I want to raise you up. After all, it’s why I do this Mister Editorial thing. It’s the time of year when you take stock of your accomplishments and write up your self-evaluations. Take your time. Pro tip: Don’t fall victim to recency bias. Stretch back to the beginning of the year and marvel at all that you’ve acco ..read more
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When You Announce Layoffs Right Before Christmas (Insider Comms From Etsy)
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3M ago
Ten days before Christmas Etsy laid off 11% of its workforce, about 225 employees including, apparently, the head of HR. My guess is this gift didn’t come wrapped in antique paper with a handwritten note thanking the recipient. The number of wintry and Christmasy metaphors we can use in this edition of Insider Comms is as long as Santa’s naughty list. The CEO as Grinch or Ebenezer Scrooge. The frostiness of it all. The lump of coal deposited into handmade stockings hung by the chimney with care. You know you’re delivering shitty news when you need to bury it in a mound of snow (1,770 wo ..read more
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