Message not received : why business communication is broken and how to fix it / Phil Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, Phil, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business communication.

Business communication--Technological innovations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages): illustrations

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I Worlds Are Colliding

Introduction: The Intersection of Business, Language, Communication, and Technology 3

Subject: The Other Scourge of Business Communication 5

Technology and the Cardinal Importance of Business Communication 5

What's the Big Whoop? 6

From Pencils to WhatsApp: A Little History Lesson 7

Book Overview and Outline 8

My Communication Bona Fides 17

Next 19

1 Technology Is Eating the World: The Dizzying Nature of Today's Existence 21

Whoops 22

Accelerating Technological Change 25

The Rise of the Machines 28

Trailing the Goldfish: Our Declining Attention Spans 30

A Communications Revolution 31

The Age of the Entrepreneur 32

Disruption Is Cool 34

SEO, and the Really Long Tail 35

The Sliding Scale of Search 37

Google and the Never-Ending Jargon Train 40

Marketing Madness 41

Mobile Mania 44

BYOD 44

The Rise of the Tech Celebrity 45

A New Body Politic 46

Other Trends 47

Next 48

Notes 48

2 The Increasingly Overwhelmed Employee: Is This Becoming the New Normal? 51

Mad Men No More 52

Abundant Leisure: Keynes Was Wrong 56

Drowning in Data 57

Demonizing the Tech Companies 59

The Limits of Technology's Tentacles 60

A Different Kind of Workplace 61

Is Being Overwhelmed Even a Choice Anymore? 64

Next 69

Notes 70

Part II Didn't You Get That Memo?: Why We Don't Communicate Good at Work

3 What We Say: Examining Words at Work 73

Jargon: The Cause of So Much Noise 75

Beyond Jargon: Other Communication and language Atrocities 90

Next 93

Notes 93

Appendix to Chapter 3 95

Note 98

4 How We Say It: E-Mail Is Dead. Long Live E-Mail! 99

A Communications Dynasty: Explaining E-Mail's Impressive Reign 102

E-Mail Nation 112

How We're Working Isn't Working 114

Next 125

Notes 125

5 Why Bad Communication Is Bad Business: The Unintended Consequences of Mixed and Missed Messages 127

One Size Does Not Misfit All 129

Message Not Received 130

Decreased Clarity, Credibility, and Trust 131

Lost Sales 131

Severed Relationships and Burnt Bridges 132

Poor Execution and Strategic Blunders 135

Lower Productivity 137

Inefficiency, Waste, and Severed Relationships 138

Increased Risk of Project Failure 139

Other Long-Term Employee Issues 141

Net Effect: A Vicious Cycle 142

Next 142

Notes 142

Part III Message Received

6 Don't Call It a Paradigm: Guidelines for Effective Business Communication 145

Language 147

E-Mail 148

Selecting a Communications Medium 150

Handling the Fallout 150

Next 151

Notes 151

7 Words and Context: Building a Solid Communication Foundation 153

A Trip Down Memory Lane 154

The World of Words 155

Communication Context, Awareness, and Technique 165

Next 174

Notes 175

8 Life Beyond E-Mail: How Progressive Organizations Are Using New Tools to Enable More Effective Collaboration and Communication 177

Communication and Collaboration Circa 2004 178

The Benefits of Old Tools 181

E-Mail Detox 182

If Not E-Mail, Then What? 184

True Communication and Collaboration in Action 187

Slaying the E-Mail Dragon: Klick Health 187

Keep Calm and Jive On 198

The Internal Social Network 204

New Tools: No Guarantees 210

Next 211

Notes 212

Part IV What Now?

Coda: Was This Message Received? 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Simon, Phil. Message not received : why business communication is broken and how to fix it.

ISBN:

9781119048121

OCLC:

905303856

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.