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Cadbury Kraft is not a people deal

LONDON — There are a whole variety of reaction to the news of Kraft’s seemingly successful bid for Cadbury in today’s media.  Many reactions are about more than just the gut reaction to the “uneven narrative of corporate finance”.

We’ve put out press release that you can read by clicking on the link.

What do you think?

/df

Go ahead! Google me!

MARBLE ARCH — I was visited by a charming man from Brussels yesterday called Hugh.  We had a nice chat about PR, communications and change management.  We talked about schools in Kenya and wine in Kuwait and real estate in Cirencester.

When it came to the subject at hand — work — Hugh blushed a bit [...]

Able and How: Help celebrate our birthday…

PICCADILLY — It’s our birthday today and we’d like you to help us celebrate.  (See our challenge below.)  

Able and How opened its doors on 8 September 2008.  And today seems a good time to explain where the name came from.

Yesterday someone wrote to us out of the blue and said how much they liked [...]

People still talking about CommsFlashMob

LONDON — I am delighted to see that people are still talking about last month’s CommsFlashMob.

Liam and his buddy Paul have both written about it recently. 

It seems like maybe the CommsFlashMob should keep on rolling.

Ideas?

/df

MacLeod Report: Can’t we go faster?

LAKE DISTRICT — I really like David MacLeod.  And I am very pleased that the Prime Minister is excited about the idea of employee engagement.  I like that he sees it as a possible source of competitive advantage for Britain.

(I am a bit disappointed that with so many delays they only issued it this week, deep [...]

Credibility of communicators (and transformation)

TCR — Here’s a brave soul.  Through a network of former Towers Perrin employees on LinkedIn I have just been forwarded a note from Robert Cornet on his blog.  I don’t know him.  But I admire his willingness to go into dangerous waters.

In his blog on 10 March (which I can’t get a clean link to) he publishes [...]

No plan, no security… but, damn, we’re happy!

LONDON — What I really like about the research that Able and How are publishing tomorrow morning is that it defies logic… but reinforces our sense of the world.

We have found that a lot of people have no idea about the future of their jobs.  They don’t have communication about the future of the company, [...]

Able and How on Twitter… sign up now!

LONDON — We were in Twitter two years ago.  Yea, I am sure they all say that.  But we are back.  The Able and How tweets start today.

Sign-up to follow us at www.twitter.com/ableandhow

We’re not sure how we’ll run it.  But the blog posts will be dumped there and we’ll also probably have a Twit of [...]

PLCs to waste £67m in needless recession costs

LONDON — Attached is a release we put out at 7 am this morning.  The calculations are ours.  they are based on published numbers and conservative estimates.

For the press release, please click here.

At the same time we prepared more background information in what we called a discusion paper.  That probably makes it sound more exciting [...]

How to manage your layoffs better…

LONDON — Last week we sent out a release about how to manage layoffs better.

I think I can attach it here: five-immutable-laws-of-layoffs-0901091. 

Let me know if you can’t get it.

Regards

/df