Are You an Ethical Presenter? Oh, Really? (#2)
Again I ask: Is the potential benefit of spinning your information worth the potential impact on how you are perceived as a presenter
Again I ask: Is the potential benefit of spinning your information worth the potential impact on how you are perceived as a presenter
Remember those family events where the adults sit at one table and discuss grownup subjects, while the kids sit at another table chatting about entirely different things? This is natural. What interests kids and adults are poles apart and, as anyone with teenage kids knows well, the two groups speak a different language. Attempts to get the two groups to share a conversation often fail.
In organizations, cynicism arises amid negligence, and it only takes one cynical employee to ensure cynicism will spread into the hearts and minds of everyone else. Unlike other corporate initiatives, cynicism does not require sponsorship from top executives. Nor does it require consensus and acceptance by all. All it takes are a few woeful leaders…
But one thing that is certain is that no matter which scenario comes to dominate the retail space, change is on the way, and you are going to have to get closer to your customer. You are going to have to know more about them, their changing buying and channel habits, and the type of shopping experience they prefer. Customer analytics will come to drive your business strategy in recognition of the fact that it has always been the consumer that ultimately decides whether that business strategy is a success or a failure.
In recent posts we’ve seen how tiny changes in the way we present numbers can have a huge impact on how well the information is understood. In this post, we look instead at how those little things can affect how your integrity or your ethics might be perceived.
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