How is poor communication affecting your business? These fun quotes from popular culture may make you want to assess how good communication skills affect your business.

1. Is your Business
Communicating?
8 Pop Culture references that
can help your company do
better business.

2. “What we have here is a failure to communicate!”– Cool Hand Luke
Here is a fact.
Major well-known
businesses have
communication
breakdowns all of the
time. What are yours?
How can they be fixed?
“What we have here is a failure to communicate.”
– Cool Hand Luke
This is a fact:
well-known companies
have communication
breakdowns.
What are yours?
How can they be fixed?

3. “Communication Breakdown, it’s
always the same.”“Communication
Breakdown…
It’s always
the same.”
-Led Zeppelin
Well, it doesn’t always have to be the same. You, and your company, can
improve communication strategies and avoid future communication
breakdowns. Or you can continue to just “ramble on.”
Was Robert Plant singing about your company’s executive communication style?

4. Oh Lord, please don't let me be
misunderstood
Yes, I'm just a soul whose intentions
are good
“Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood. Yes, I’m just a
soul
“Oh Lord, please don't let me be
misunderstood. Yes, I'm just a
soul
whose intentions are good.”
– The Animals
How many
times have we heard
“But what I meant to
say was…?” Fixing
mistakes in
reports
costs
time
and
money...
Don’t be an animal;
make sure you’re
understood.

5. “Of course we communicate. Now can
we not talk about it anymore?”-
Melinda and Melinda
Having an effective communication strategy is one of the most
important things when it comes to having an efficient workplace.
“You feel like we don’t
communicate anymore?”
“Of course we communicate. Now
can we not talk about it anymore?”
–Melinda and Melinda
Having an effective
communication strategy
is crucial for an efficient,
effective workplace.

6. not listening to her or something.
I don’t know, I wasn’t really
paying attention.”- Dumb and
Dumber“
Doing better business starts with understanding who your
audience is, what your audience wants, and giving to them.
Harry was not aware of this.
“Yeah, I called her
up, and she gave
me a bunch of
crap about me
not listening to
her or something.
I don’t know, I
wasn’t really
paying attention.”
- Dumb and Dumber
Doing better business starts
with understanding your
readers, what they want and
expect, and delivering that.
Harry Dunne was not aware
of this.

7. “When you’re telling these stories, have a
point. It makes it so much more interesting
for the listener.”- Planes, Trains and
Automobiles
“When you’re telling these
stories, have a point. It
makes it so much more
interesting for the listener.”
- Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Seems obvious, right?
However, writers often don’t tell readers what’s important.
We should follow Steve Martin’s advice to “have a point” and tell readers why they should care.

8. “There is more to talking than just
words.”- Humphrey Bogart. The
Barefoot Contessa.
Except in written correspondence, where words
are all you have, so you better make sure you
get your point across the first time, because you
likely won’t have a 2nd chance.Except in written
correspondence, where words
are the only thing you have.
“There is more to talking
than just words.”
-The Barefoot Contessa
“There
is more
to talking
than just
words.”
- The Barefoot
Contessa
Except in written
correspondence,
Mr. Bogart.
Where words
are the only
thing you have.

9. Message from Pam Hurley, PhD
Copyright 2015.

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