Todd Blecher’s Post

We’re not Communications Waitresses. We’re not here to take your order.    With much love for the server profession, it’s just not what we do.      We advance business goals and protect companies from crisis by using the lens of communication to advise.      Internal Communications, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Crisis Communications – it's all about advising the company using the lens of Communications to achieve business goals.      Most often, the most critical work we do in our careers is done without ever lifting a pen to write a word.   What’s rarely recognized, discussed or celebrated in our field is our biggest asset:    Our brains.      Our counsel.      Our ability to always connect to the big picture and see the details that can harm, or help, achieve a goal.      Our creativity in finding new ways of doing things that connect to that goal.      We can look at a business decision and sit in a room listening to it for the first time and see all the many cracks in it, or the gaping holes that haven’t been decided yet, or that will cause a crisis.       And we sit in that room asking questions that we think are so obvious we’re almost embarrassed to ask them.       We think to ourselves, “how am I the first one asking this question? Is this too simple of a question? Will I seem dumb for asking it?”       But time and again, we find that we ARE the first ones to see this giant hole.      That no one else thought of it quite like we did. No one dealt with the big picture and the seemingly minor details or exceptions that can derail the entire goal.      Hopefully, you’ve been involved in the discussions and decisions along the way.     But if not, your questions will likely lead to a delay because no one has thought of them, until now. YOU aren’t delaying the project; you’re making it successful.      Seriously, what’s easy for us to see is not easy for others.      Don’t underestimate yourself and the impact of your brain on the business.   #Communications  #InternalCommunications  #CorporateCommunications  #PublicRelations  #StrategicCommunications 

We’re not Communications Waitresses. We’re not here to take your order.    With much love for the server profession, it’s just not what we do.      We advance business goals and protect companies from crisis by using the lens of communication to advise.      Internal Communications, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Crisis Communications – it's all about advising the company using the lens of Communications to achieve business goals.      Most often, the most critical work we do in our careers is done without ever lifting a pen to write a word.   What’s rarely recognized, discussed or celebrated in our field is our biggest asset:    Our brains.      Our counsel.      Our ability to always connect to the big picture and see the details that can harm, or help, achieve a goal.      Our creativity in finding new ways of doing things that connect to that goal.      We can look at a business decision and sit in a room listening to it for the first time and see all the many cracks in it, or the gaping holes that haven’t been decided yet, or that will cause a crisis.       And we sit in that room asking questions that we think are so obvious we’re almost embarrassed to ask them.       We think to ourselves, “how am I the first one asking this question? Is this too simple of a question? Will I seem dumb for asking it?”       But time and again, we find that we ARE the first ones to see this giant hole.      That no one else thought of it quite like we did. No one dealt with the big picture and the seemingly minor details or exceptions that can derail the entire goal.      Hopefully, you’ve been involved in the discussions and decisions along the way.     But if not, your questions will likely lead to a delay because no one has thought of them, until now. YOU aren’t delaying the project; you’re making it successful.      Seriously, what’s easy for us to see is not easy for others.      Don’t underestimate yourself and the impact of your brain on the business.   #Communications  #InternalCommunications  #CorporateCommunications  #PublicRelations  #StrategicCommunications 

We’re not Communications Waitresses. We’re not here to take your order.    With much love for the server profession, it’s just not what we do.      We advance business goals and protect companies from crisis by using the lens of communication to advise.      Internal Communications, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Crisis Communications – it's all about advising the company using the lens of Communications to achieve business goals.      Most often, the most critical work we do in our careers is done without ever lifting a pen to write a word.   What’s rarely recognized, discussed or celebrated in our field is our biggest asset:    Our brains.      Our counsel.      Our ability to always connect to the big picture and see the details that can harm, or help, achieve a goal.      Our creativity in finding new ways of doing things that connect to that goal.      We can look at a business decision and sit in a room listening to it for the first time and see all the many cracks in it, or the gaping holes that haven’t been decided yet, or that will cause a crisis.       And we sit in that room asking questions that we think are so obvious we’re almost embarrassed to ask them.       We think to ourselves, “how am I the first one asking this question? Is this too simple of a question? Will I seem dumb for asking it?”       But time and again, we find that we ARE the first ones to see this giant hole.      That no one else thought of it quite like we did. No one dealt with the big picture and the seemingly minor details or exceptions that can derail the entire goal.      Hopefully, you’ve been involved in the discussions and decisions along the way.     But if not, your questions will likely lead to a delay because no one has thought of them, until now. YOU aren’t delaying the project; you’re making it successful.      Seriously, what’s easy for us to see is not easy for others.      Don’t underestimate yourself and the impact of your brain on the business.   #Communications  #InternalCommunications  #CorporateCommunications  #PublicRelations  #StrategicCommunications 

We’re not Communications Waitresses. We’re not here to take your order.    With much love for the server profession, it’s just not what we do.      We advance business goals and protect companies from crisis by using the lens of communication to advise.      Internal Communications, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Crisis Communications – it's all about advising the company using the lens of Communications to achieve business goals.      Most often, the most critical work we do in our careers is done without ever lifting a pen to write a word.   What’s rarely recognized, discussed or celebrated in our field is our biggest asset:    Our brains.      Our counsel.      Our ability to always connect to the big picture and see the details that can harm, or help, achieve a goal.      Our creativity in finding new ways of doing things that connect to that goal.      We can look at a business decision and sit in a room listening to it for the first time and see all the many cracks in it, or the gaping holes that haven’t been decided yet, or that will cause a crisis.       And we sit in that room asking questions that we think are so obvious we’re almost embarrassed to ask them.       We think to ourselves, “how am I the first one asking this question? Is this too simple of a question? Will I seem dumb for asking it?”       But time and again, we find that we ARE the first ones to see this giant hole.      That no one else thought of it quite like we did. No one dealt with the big picture and the seemingly minor details or exceptions that can derail the entire goal.      Hopefully, you’ve been involved in the discussions and decisions along the way.     But if not, your questions will likely lead to a delay because no one has thought of them, until now. YOU aren’t delaying the project; you’re making it successful.      Seriously, what’s easy for us to see is not easy for others.      Don’t underestimate yourself and the impact of your brain on the business.   #Communications  #InternalCommunications  #CorporateCommunications  #PublicRelations  #StrategicCommunications 

We’re not Communications Waitresses. We’re not here to take your order.    With much love for the server profession, it’s just not what we do.      We advance business goals and protect companies from crisis by using the lens of communication to advise.      Internal Communications, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Crisis Communications – it's all about advising the company using the lens of Communications to achieve business goals.      Most often, the most critical work we do in our careers is done without ever lifting a pen to write a word.   What’s rarely recognized, discussed or celebrated in our field is our biggest asset:    Our brains.      Our counsel.      Our ability to always connect to the big picture and see the details that can harm, or help, achieve a goal.      Our creativity in finding new ways of doing things that connect to that goal.      We can look at a business decision and sit in a room listening to it for the first time and see all the many cracks in it, or the gaping holes that haven’t been decided yet, or that will cause a crisis.       And we sit in that room asking questions that we think are so obvious we’re almost embarrassed to ask them.       We think to ourselves, “how am I the first one asking this question? Is this too simple of a question? Will I seem dumb for asking it?”       But time and again, we find that we ARE the first ones to see this giant hole.      That no one else thought of it quite like we did. No one dealt with the big picture and the seemingly minor details or exceptions that can derail the entire goal.      Hopefully, you’ve been involved in the discussions and decisions along the way.     But if not, your questions will likely lead to a delay because no one has thought of them, until now. YOU aren’t delaying the project; you’re making it successful.      Seriously, what’s easy for us to see is not easy for others.      Don’t underestimate yourself and the impact of your brain on the business.   #Communications  #InternalCommunications  #CorporateCommunications  #PublicRelations  #StrategicCommunications 

We’re not Communications Waitresses. We’re not here to take your order.    With much love for the server profession, it’s just not what we do.      We advance business goals and protect companies from crisis by using the lens of communication to advise.      Internal Communications, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Crisis Communications – it's all about advising the company using the lens of Communications to achieve business goals.      Most often, the most critical work we do in our careers is done without ever lifting a pen to write a word.   What’s rarely recognized, discussed or celebrated in our field is our biggest asset:    Our brains.      Our counsel.      Our ability to always connect to the big picture and see the details that can harm, or help, achieve a goal.      Our creativity in finding new ways of doing things that connect to that goal.      We can look at a business decision and sit in a room listening to it for the first time and see all the many cracks in it, or the gaping holes that haven’t been decided yet, or that will cause a crisis.       And we sit in that room asking questions that we think are so obvious we’re almost embarrassed to ask them.       We think to ourselves, “how am I the first one asking this question? Is this too simple of a question? Will I seem dumb for asking it?”       But time and again, we find that we ARE the first ones to see this giant hole.      That no one else thought of it quite like we did. No one dealt with the big picture and the seemingly minor details or exceptions that can derail the entire goal.      Hopefully, you’ve been involved in the discussions and decisions along the way.     But if not, your questions will likely lead to a delay because no one has thought of them, until now. YOU aren’t delaying the project; you’re making it successful.      Seriously, what’s easy for us to see is not easy for others.      Don’t underestimate yourself and the impact of your brain on the business.   #Communications  #InternalCommunications  #CorporateCommunications  #PublicRelations  #StrategicCommunications 

We’re not Communications Waitresses. We’re not here to take your order.    With much love for the server profession, it’s just not what we do.      We advance business goals and protect companies from crisis by using the lens of communication to advise.      Internal Communications, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Crisis Communications – it's all about advising the company using the lens of Communications to achieve business goals.      Most often, the most critical work we do in our careers is done without ever lifting a pen to write a word.   What’s rarely recognized, discussed or celebrated in our field is our biggest asset:    Our brains.      Our counsel.      Our ability to always connect to the big picture and see the details that can harm, or help, achieve a goal.      Our creativity in finding new ways of doing things that connect to that goal.      We can look at a business decision and sit in a room listening to it for the first time and see all the many cracks in it, or the gaping holes that haven’t been decided yet, or that will cause a crisis.       And we sit in that room asking questions that we think are so obvious we’re almost embarrassed to ask them.       We think to ourselves, “how am I the first one asking this question? Is this too simple of a question? Will I seem dumb for asking it?”       But time and again, we find that we ARE the first ones to see this giant hole.      That no one else thought of it quite like we did. No one dealt with the big picture and the seemingly minor details or exceptions that can derail the entire goal.      Hopefully, you’ve been involved in the discussions and decisions along the way.     But if not, your questions will likely lead to a delay because no one has thought of them, until now. YOU aren’t delaying the project; you’re making it successful.      Seriously, what’s easy for us to see is not easy for others.      Don’t underestimate yourself and the impact of your brain on the business.   #Communications  #InternalCommunications  #CorporateCommunications  #PublicRelations  #StrategicCommunications 

We’re not Communications Waitresses. We’re not here to take your order.    With much love for the server profession, it’s just not what we do.      We advance business goals and protect companies from crisis by using the lens of communication to advise.      Internal Communications, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Crisis Communications – it's all about advising the company using the lens of Communications to achieve business goals.      Most often, the most critical work we do in our careers is done without ever lifting a pen to write a word.   What’s rarely recognized, discussed or celebrated in our field is our biggest asset:    Our brains.      Our counsel.      Our ability to always connect to the big picture and see the details that can harm, or help, achieve a goal.      Our creativity in finding new ways of doing things that connect to that goal.      We can look at a business decision and sit in a room listening to it for the first time and see all the many cracks in it, or the gaping holes that haven’t been decided yet, or that will cause a crisis.       And we sit in that room asking questions that we think are so obvious we’re almost embarrassed to ask them.       We think to ourselves, “how am I the first one asking this question? Is this too simple of a question? Will I seem dumb for asking it?”       But time and again, we find that we ARE the first ones to see this giant hole.      That no one else thought of it quite like we did. No one dealt with the big picture and the seemingly minor details or exceptions that can derail the entire goal.      Hopefully, you’ve been involved in the discussions and decisions along the way.     But if not, your questions will likely lead to a delay because no one has thought of them, until now. YOU aren’t delaying the project; you’re making it successful.      Seriously, what’s easy for us to see is not easy for others.      Don’t underestimate yourself and the impact of your brain on the business.   #Communications  #InternalCommunications  #CorporateCommunications  #PublicRelations  #StrategicCommunications 

We’re not Communications Waitresses. We’re not here to take your order.    With much love for the server profession, it’s just not what we do.      We advance business goals and protect companies from crisis by using the lens of communication to advise.      Internal Communications, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Crisis Communications – it's all about advising the company using the lens of Communications to achieve business goals.      Most often, the most critical work we do in our careers is done without ever lifting a pen to write a word.   What’s rarely recognized, discussed or celebrated in our field is our biggest asset:    Our brains.      Our counsel.      Our ability to always connect to the big picture and see the details that can harm, or help, achieve a goal.      Our creativity in finding new ways of doing things that connect to that goal.      We can look at a business decision and sit in a room listening to it for the first time and see all the many cracks in it, or the gaping holes that haven’t been decided yet, or that will cause a crisis.       And we sit in that room asking questions that we think are so obvious we’re almost embarrassed to ask them.       We think to ourselves, “how am I the first one asking this question? Is this too simple of a question? Will I seem dumb for asking it?”       But time and again, we find that we ARE the first ones to see this giant hole.      That no one else thought of it quite like we did. No one dealt with the big picture and the seemingly minor details or exceptions that can derail the entire goal.      Hopefully, you’ve been involved in the discussions and decisions along the way.     But if not, your questions will likely lead to a delay because no one has thought of them, until now. YOU aren’t delaying the project; you’re making it successful.      Seriously, what’s easy for us to see is not easy for others.      Don’t underestimate yourself and the impact of your brain on the business.   #Communications  #InternalCommunications  #CorporateCommunications  #PublicRelations  #StrategicCommunications 

We’re not Communications Waitresses. We’re not here to take your order.    With much love for the server profession, it’s just not what we do.      We advance business goals and protect companies from crisis by using the lens of communication to advise.      Internal Communications, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Crisis Communications – it's all about advising the company using the lens of Communications to achieve business goals.      Most often, the most critical work we do in our careers is done without ever lifting a pen to write a word.   What’s rarely recognized, discussed or celebrated in our field is our biggest asset:    Our brains.      Our counsel.      Our ability to always connect to the big picture and see the details that can harm, or help, achieve a goal.      Our creativity in finding new ways of doing things that connect to that goal.      We can look at a business decision and sit in a room listening to it for the first time and see all the many cracks in it, or the gaping holes that haven’t been decided yet, or that will cause a crisis.       And we sit in that room asking questions that we think are so obvious we’re almost embarrassed to ask them.       We think to ourselves, “how am I the first one asking this question? Is this too simple of a question? Will I seem dumb for asking it?”       But time and again, we find that we ARE the first ones to see this giant hole.      That no one else thought of it quite like we did. No one dealt with the big picture and the seemingly minor details or exceptions that can derail the entire goal.      Hopefully, you’ve been involved in the discussions and decisions along the way.     But if not, your questions will likely lead to a delay because no one has thought of them, until now. YOU aren’t delaying the project; you’re making it successful.      Seriously, what’s easy for us to see is not easy for others.      Don’t underestimate yourself and the impact of your brain on the business.   #Communications  #InternalCommunications  #CorporateCommunications  #PublicRelations  #StrategicCommunications