This was a good challenge: to take a pre-recorded webinar (including Q&A) and turn it into a magazine and web article. Good fun, though, and I learned a new word: over-boarding. Enjoy…
Author: Matthew Rock
How AI is changing the media
For Influence magazine, I chaired a roundtable discussion about the impact of AI on the media and, in particular, public relations. The discussion featured a fascinating insight from the Press Association/Urbs Media’s new RADAR automated journalism project. Here’s my write-up…
Article + video: igniting organisational purpose
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has a vibrant Companions network, which meets regularly to discuss the big issues in business. Recently, a senior-level group met to discuss organisational purpose. Here’s my write-up plus a video I co-produced with the excellent Sarah Rowland. A satisfying piece of multi-channel journalism…
How to create an amazing workplace culture
Two years ago, I co-created the CMI/Glassdoor Top 20 project, which looks into the UK companies that are most highly ranked (by employees) for their workplace culture and senior leadership. Here’s a piece I wrote off the back of that, examining some of the wackier ideas for creating a productive culture…
Make yourself uncomfortable: a Q&A with Jack Dorsey
What’s with all the lame “stories”?
It’s no longer enough for a company to have an “About us” page; no, it must have a “story”. FFS… Here’s my column for the CIPR’s Influence magazine.
Goodbye Powerpoint: lunch with Prezi co-founder, Adam Somlai-Fischer
The Hungarian data visualisation company Prezi is one of the most-watched businesses around. Its co-founder Adam Somlai-Fischer is a former architect turned digital creative. We met for a quickfire conversation beneath the gorgeous vaulted industrial arches of London’s St Pancras Station. This is my interview for Professional Manager magazine.
How to cut it among the world’s elite comms leaders: 18 habits
While writing for the UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Chartered Management Institute, I’ve been able to observe and study the changing habits of the upper-echelon leader. Here, from achingly white teeth to an insistence on “10X” performance, is what it takes to get to the top table in comms. This article, which I loved writing, is from the Q2 edition of Influence magazine.
Too much information: Yuval Harari on communications
In the spring of 2017, I got the chance to interview Professor Yuval Harari, author of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. This is a mind-bendingly interesting book, and I relished the chance to talk to Professor Harari. My interview was for the Q2 edition of Influence, the Chartered Institute of Public Relations magazine. Perhaps most strikingly, Harari believes that peace and quiet is the new symbol of wealth and power. He, like many of the world’s elite, does not carry a smartphone.
An interview with Brigadier Suzanne Anderson
At the end of 2016, I visited Sandhurst, home of the British Army officer, to meet Brigadier Suzanne Anderson, one of the most senior women in the army and the woman responsible for soldiers’ and officers’ individual development. We had a hearty breakfast in an oak-panelled room with a large animal skin hanging on the wall, and she explained how the army is now giving soldiers the tools to survive in the civilian world, from the very day they sign up. Here’s the full interview, which was originally published in the winter 2017 edition of Professional Manager, the Chartered Management Institute magazine.
