Change and Transformation
Today is a new day in my evolution – and I am excited by the opportunities ahead. Change is something that I welcome – you gain perspective, see things differently and it creates a host of different and exciting opportunities. Many fear change. It has always motivated me.
Having spent almost 2 years working in “New Marketing”, most recently as CEO of crayon and prior to that with its predecessor jaffe, LLC., Joseph and I agreed that it was the opportune time to part ways. I wish him and crayon well and know they do the same for me.
Start-ups are interesting and exciting endeavors. And the mix is often changing by design and sometimes by default. In a connected many to many social media world, what a start-up plans to be and what it becomes is often not one and the same. Especially if the start-up follows what resonates with the target community. A lot has been written in various blogs on what supposedly happened, and why, and because of whom, and conjecture on why people left. Like my former colleagues and social media rock stars CC Chapman, Steve Coulson, Shel Holtz, Neville Hobson and others who have left crayon, I have also politely declined to discuss events or as other’s have coined it “what happened.” As Shel commented at one point – the reason people leave companies are often personal, not public. People have insinuated that we have a vow of silence – no such thing ever happened. Without ever discussing that we would or would not comment, I believe we have not for a number of reasons.
A number of people including luminaries in the social media space chose to make comments or surmise about certain goings on. Without all of the facts, I am not sure how some of the comments could be made or that they require a response.
Lee Hopkins posted questions/advice on his 3T’s &A (Trust, Transparency, Truth & Accountability) and ethics and good manners related to this so called brouhaha:
“There are ‘ground rules’ for the behavior of us all within this new communications paradigm. Ground rules such as ‘trust’, ‘truth’, ‘transparency’ and ‘accountability’.
But there also needs to be an acknowledgment of the basic human rights of privacy and the display of good manners. I believe that far above the rights of the masses to the ‘3Ts and an A’ are the rights of the individual to privacy, good taste and manners.”
In the British vernacular: Its just not cricket. And that my friend is why I believe we have independently got to the same place and not commented – as professionals, as friends, and as people who may and probably will work together from time to time. I respect my former colleagues tremendously and look forward to reading their blogs and cheering on their successes.
Comments
G’day Gary!
Great post, mate, and I’m flattered to have been quoted.
Good luck with your endeavours, with finding the right balance for you between privacy and disclosure, and with the next exciting chapter in the book of your life.
Kind regards,
Lee
Lee,
Congrats – you are the first commentor on my blog! Also one of the first posts that got me thinking about how to respond in the first place
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I agree it comes down to balance – in almost everything we do. Too much or too little of a good thing is not the right answer.
Thanks,
Gary
Congrats on the new blog launch, Gary! Looks great. Love the tagline…(dot dot dot)!
@ Ann – was thinking in search of … but that was a so broad
but so is life!
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