Archive for March, 2010
Language and perspective
Late one night in early fall last year I was sitting in the breathtaking Eastern Sierras, having spent the day teaching the Rainer Arnhold (social innovation) Fellows with Kevin Starr, finishing an article for JustMeans that was a few weeks overdue. I was high – from spending time with young people who do not accept […]
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Tags: Cheryl Heller, corporations, Heller Communication Design, justmeans, Language, Social entrepreneurs
What you learn when you teach.
Give up your Mission Vision and Values Last Sunday evening, I spoke to a group of 130 StartingBloc Social Innovators at the NYU Stern Satter Program in Social Entrepreneurship. It was a bright, engaged group whose collective mood was improved when StartingBloc’s Program Director, Taryn Miller-Stevens, made everybody get up and dance for three minutes […]
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Tags: communication, Heller Communication Design, mission, StartingBloc, values, vision
Context is everything. Sometimes when weʼre intent on communicating we donʼt see the wider view. Did this babysitter mean to connect herself with the ad behind her notice? Maybe so, somebody took her number. No wonder our financial system is in trouble.
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Tags: babysitters, Cheryl Heller, communication, Entrepreneurs, Gary Scheft, Signs
What are we doing here?
We believe that communication is the single, universal factor that can solve literally every problem the world is facing. Ask any CEO, entrepreneur, manager, founder, investor, board member or employee what frustrates them about their organization, and more than likely, they will describe communication. Talk to any mother, father, spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, child or sibling […]
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How to Communicate 