Cut the crap out of CEO columns

Mark Ragan hopes blogs and other social media replace vapid, mind-numbing executive columns.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:35:00 AM by tia carr williams

Mark is handsome isn't he?

Thursday, December 10, 2009 10:41:24 PM by Cheryl Howard

I'm laughing so hard it hurts. Maybe it would help if we told our CEOs that their employees have the attention spans of gnats and won't get past the first sentence. No... that won't work... they'd tell us to fix the employees' attention spans...

Friday, February 05, 2010 1:07:52 AM by Joel Postman

Loved the video and your perspective. There are two kinds of business those that are run like a game of Chutes and Ladders and those that more resemble the game of Life.

Seriously, blogs aren't going to free us from the ridiculously florid prose, hackneyed analogies, and cracker barrel philosophy, because in so many corporations, the same writers that wrote the CEO's monthly "column" in the e-newsletter are ghosting the CEO blog posts.

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