I love a healthy diversity of opinions. It keeps the conversation colorful and our minds on their toes. However, I’m not one to enjoy being misunderstood and then disagreed with.
Recently, I was told of a blog that mentioned my presentation to the PRSA wherein I purportedly implied that Social Media was a Silver Bullet. This is hilariously incorrect. Not only do I know that Social Media is not a Silver Bullet, but also I don’t believe in Silver Bullets.
I learned decades ago as a consumer product reliability engineer never to make absolute claims. You will eventually eat your words just about every time.
Don’t ever trust a silver bullet unless it’s coming out of a barrel at you.
In general, there are NO Silver Bullets when it comes to dealing with people. We’re all too (wonderfully) diverse.
If someone is crying out about a Silver Bullet, I promise it’s nearly pure Silver Bull.
See you in the conversation!
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Mon, Dec 15, 2008
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