Eric F
@erfletch.bsky.social
Communicator, Consultant, Problem Solver. Former broadcaster, ad guy, producer, CMO. Husband, Dad, Friend. Driven by Joy.
Looking forward to TEDxAdamsMorgan…3/22. Intentional acts of kindness can help us reclaim human decency.
Eric Fletcher, will speak at #TEDxAdamsMorgan 2025!🤲With 30+ years of experience, he believes kindness can transform businesses. Join us on March 22! Register here: tinyurl.com/TEDxAdamsMorgan #KindnessInBusiness #Leadership
March 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Looking forward to TEDxAdamsMorgan…3/22. Intentional acts of kindness can help us reclaim human decency.
A leader won’t be distracted.
Not by practiced misdirection or slight-of-hand. Not by the loudest critic or a siren song.
Great leaders inspire us to reach higher and live larger…to turn impossible hopes into purpose…to dream unselfish dreams…to resist all that conspires to divert or distract.
Not by practiced misdirection or slight-of-hand. Not by the loudest critic or a siren song.
Great leaders inspire us to reach higher and live larger…to turn impossible hopes into purpose…to dream unselfish dreams…to resist all that conspires to divert or distract.
Portrait Of A Leader
A leader won’t be distracted.
open.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A leader won’t be distracted.
Not by practiced misdirection or slight-of-hand. Not by the loudest critic or a siren song.
Great leaders inspire us to reach higher and live larger…to turn impossible hopes into purpose…to dream unselfish dreams…to resist all that conspires to divert or distract.
Not by practiced misdirection or slight-of-hand. Not by the loudest critic or a siren song.
Great leaders inspire us to reach higher and live larger…to turn impossible hopes into purpose…to dream unselfish dreams…to resist all that conspires to divert or distract.
Feel like you’re having the same conversations over and over with little progress?
The most effective interactions are built on these four cornerstones — Curiosity, Bridge Building, Honesty and Respect.
#conversations #communication
The most effective interactions are built on these four cornerstones — Curiosity, Bridge Building, Honesty and Respect.
#conversations #communication
January 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Feel like you’re having the same conversations over and over with little progress?
The most effective interactions are built on these four cornerstones — Curiosity, Bridge Building, Honesty and Respect.
#conversations #communication
The most effective interactions are built on these four cornerstones — Curiosity, Bridge Building, Honesty and Respect.
#conversations #communication
This is insightful and spot-on. It highlights the challenge for writers — I write out of my experiences; my experiences include consuming content from smart, articulate people. (And btw, hopefully my communication improves as I learn from what works for gifted communicators.)
An interesting debate.
An interesting debate.
I think Matt Levine of Bloomberg nails both sides of the "AI is plagiarism" debate really well here. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
![Excerpt from column by Matt Levine of Bloomberg:
As a person who writes columns on the internet, I have a lot of sympathy for both sides of the artificial intelligence copyright debate:
If you publish words on the internet, you have some proprietary rights to them. If somebody else just took my columns and republished them, under their own name, without credit to me, and sold ads or subscriptions against them, I would be annoyed. If somebody stole my ideas and changed the wording a little, and then republished them in slightly modified form, I would be equally — maybe more — annoyed. And so I have a lot of sympathy for publishers and writers[1] who say: “Look, our words are on the internet. It seems that OpenAI and other artificial intelligence companies trained their large language models on a corpus of text that includes our words. Effectively what they are doing is remixing our content for their own commercial purposes. This has the potential to destroy our livelihood — if people go to an AI chatbot for information, instead of to a newspaper or a financial columnist — and has also made the AI people extremely wealthy. They should have to pay us!”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cwxwx7lwes5sv524vy24e5or/bafkreid45jw4sm365m3xqbfb7a4pjnwq2i3vxaehvsnvgfsncorf7h2k2y@jpeg)
January 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is insightful and spot-on. It highlights the challenge for writers — I write out of my experiences; my experiences include consuming content from smart, articulate people. (And btw, hopefully my communication improves as I learn from what works for gifted communicators.)
An interesting debate.
An interesting debate.
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion are good. Segregation is terrible. These things were true last week, they're true today, and they'll still be true four years from now.
January 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are good. Segregation is terrible. These things were true last week, they're true today, and they'll still be true four years from now.
When it comes to CULTURE, here’s the revealing question: What is so central to who we are that it drives every consequential decision and is not negotiable?
Rhetoric and memes aside, actions make it clear what we value above all else…or whether everything is negotiable.
#values #culture
Rhetoric and memes aside, actions make it clear what we value above all else…or whether everything is negotiable.
#values #culture
January 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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"A year ago, GPT-4 felt like a glimpse of the future. Now it's basically running on phones, while new models are catching errors that slip past academic peer review. We're watching AI take uneven leaps past our ability to easily gauge its implications." www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-just-...
What just happened
A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
www.oneusefulthing.org
January 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"A year ago, GPT-4 felt like a glimpse of the future. Now it's basically running on phones, while new models are catching errors that slip past academic peer review. We're watching AI take uneven leaps past our ability to easily gauge its implications." www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-just-...
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Every article I read about law firms and AI says the need for training will explode: Train lawyers to use AI, train new associates to offer higher-level services b/c AI will do basic work, etc.
That training time is going to come out of billable-work time. Most firms haven't figured this out yet.
That training time is going to come out of billable-work time. Most firms haven't figured this out yet.
January 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Every article I read about law firms and AI says the need for training will explode: Train lawyers to use AI, train new associates to offer higher-level services b/c AI will do basic work, etc.
That training time is going to come out of billable-work time. Most firms haven't figured this out yet.
That training time is going to come out of billable-work time. Most firms haven't figured this out yet.
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one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
January 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
Searching for inspiration and perspective? Find a child to hang with.
January 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Searching for inspiration and perspective? Find a child to hang with.
If you hate selling, but have to find clients for your business (or worthy cause)...
If you feel like you're forced to wear a different "hat" every time you're pitching your idea...
Then my latest Substack post is dedicated to you.
And it's good news.
Link in Comments.
#businessdevelopment #lma
If you feel like you're forced to wear a different "hat" every time you're pitching your idea...
Then my latest Substack post is dedicated to you.
And it's good news.
Link in Comments.
#businessdevelopment #lma
January 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
If you hate selling, but have to find clients for your business (or worthy cause)...
If you feel like you're forced to wear a different "hat" every time you're pitching your idea...
Then my latest Substack post is dedicated to you.
And it's good news.
Link in Comments.
#businessdevelopment #lma
If you feel like you're forced to wear a different "hat" every time you're pitching your idea...
Then my latest Substack post is dedicated to you.
And it's good news.
Link in Comments.
#businessdevelopment #lma
George Bernard Shaw had this journey figured out.
January 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
George Bernard Shaw had this journey figured out.