John Cleese is perhaps the most famous figure in British internal communication, though not many people would know it. He is, of course, most famous for iconic comedies such as Fawlty Towers and Monty Python’s Flying Circus. But he has spent a much larger part of his career running (and starring in) the films of one […]
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How are institutions able to change? If institutional structures which create recursive and taken for granted social structures – from dining to families to society to politics to working and way beyond – are so embedded in our social behaviour, how are we able to alter them? If we are trapped, as DiMaggio and Powell
Miss Rail News was a popular competition run by the Rail News newspaper. Launched in 1963, it served both the employees of British Rail (who received a free copy) and a wider community of rail aficionados (who paid 6d a copy). Rail News was launched at precisely the moment that a self-consciously modern national railway
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Our source of the month for February is the minutes of a meeting to discuss terms of reference for a Communications Audit/Study held at the Midland Bank in 1983. The Midland Bank had been active in the development of internal communication (IC) since the early 1960s and was a pioneer in its development. We have
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