Peggy Smedley and TR Cutler to Address PRONTO North America Users ConferenceWritten by Tom Verzi
Peggy Smedley is editor of Start Magazine and will be addressing first annual PRONTO North America Users Conference on Thursday, May 5th. Smedley was recently profiled in Wall Street Journal and authored Mending Manufacturing, How America Can Manufacture its Survival. She is an award-winning journalist. Wednesday, May 4th, Thomas R. Cutler, CEO of TR Cutler, Inc., author of Manufacturers Public Relations and Media Guide, Associate Editor of Industrial Connection, and Contributing Editor to InMFG magazine will be addressing PRONTO North America Users Conference. Cutler is also founder of Manufacturing Media Consortium, a group of 2000 journalists writing about various aspects of manufacturing and industrial trends. PRONTO North America, (www.prontoerp.com) based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, is North American Master Distributor of PRONTO-Xi, a comprehensive software system allowing manufacturers,
| | Everyone talks in code!Written by graham and julie
How often have you left a meeting with a customer or your boss telling yourself he likes my ideas. Only to find later that you didn’t get sale or your boss has told everyone that you are crazy. As we get older it seems to us that everyone talks in code. No one tells us what they really mean. Everything is hidden behind a veil of double talk. But all is not lost. We found a copy of code breaking manual on web site of that well known code breaking magazine, Harpers Magazine. It’s no ordinary code. This is special. We had many discussions before we decided to reveal secrets of code to you. This is code you need to understand what us Brits are talking about. It was found on a wall in European Courts of Justice and released to world, by a journalist for The Economist (who else we hear you ask) in 2004. We thought it so important to your survival in world that we have reproduced it here. We hope it will change course of war against failed communication and create foundation for ongoing successful conversations. What they say: I’m sure it’s my fault. What is understood: It is his fault. What they mean: It is your fault. What they say: I’ll bear it in mind. What is understood: He will probably do it. What they mean: I will do nothing about it. What they say: I was a bit disappointed that . . . What is understood: It doesn’t really matter. What they mean: I am most upset and cross.
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