by David Phillips | Jul 15, 2013 | Communication, Leadership
Resonance is a physics concept that describes a system “in which an abnormally large vibration is produced in response to an external stimulus, occurring when the frequency of the stimulus is the same, or nearly the same, as the natural vibration frequency of the...
by David Phillips | Jul 9, 2013 | Communication, Leadership, Featured
If we are primarily emotion-based, business leaders attempting to persuade their employees to follow them through one more change in how the company functions have a practical decision to make. Get more here
by David Phillips | Jun 3, 2013 | Featured, Communication
By David Phillips About ten years ago, I took a doctoral class in Mass Communication at the University of Alabama. In part of our discussion, I learned that research begun in the 1940′s began to reveal something very interesting in the field of mass communicating,...
by David Phillips | Jun 3, 2013 | Systems, Business, Featured
By David Phillips Aristotle’s three appeals – logos, pathos, and ethos – are effective tools in the rhetorical framework, or the art of persuasion. Using all three as part of a rhetorical strategy, in fact, is one of the most effective methods of persuading others,...
by David Phillips | Jul 6, 2011 | Formation, Communications
I want to talk for a few posts about the storying process. In this post, let’s talk a moment about images and imagination. Here’s a trick. Let’s suppose I say, “Not everything that appears to be valuable is actually valuable.” If you...
