I am the CEO of a publicly traded company. No, it’s not an S&P 500 company, it’s just a smallcap company. I’m not the world’s most important person, not by a long shot.
If I wanted to, I could have a blog under my real name. But then, I’d be a representative of the company I work for and own a tiny fraction of. I wouldn’t be able to say what I really thought about a lot of subjects. Anything politically incorrect, or anything that might reflect negatively on me or my company or my industry would be out of bounds. I wouldn’t be able to write what I really wanted to write.
The purpose of this blog is to entertain myself, to see what this blogging phenomenon is really about, and maybe to influence some people who stumble across it and read what I have to say. This is not a blog about my job, my company, or even my industry. Writing about those topics, in fact, would give away my identity. This blog is about the things I’m interested in that I think other people might find interesting as well. I imagine that the topics will mostly cover politics and business, but since I haven’t started writing any substantive posts yet, that’s just a guess.
Thanks for reading this post, and I hope you visit often.
Welcome! Good to have a perspective that will probably be unusual given the average demographics.
Posted by: Stuart Berman | February 03, 2005 at 12:30 AM
Thank you for the invite. I will.
Posted by: James C. Hess | February 06, 2005 at 09:35 AM
I hope you haven't given up on your blogging experiment - it has taken me over nine months to get a feel for blogging and as I discovered the effort is not inconsequential.
One thing that continues to seem like a great opportunity is to create blogs within a corporation that serves as a way to adapt to the new ways that we are expected to work: (given a company that wants to evolve)
As a way to foster natural leadership within the ranks and break down the formal hierarchies that defined 'the leadership'.
As a way to create feedback mechanisms to alost any component of the business.
As a way to bond people into a team in a world that seems to be intent upon weakening those bonds.
Posted by: Stuart Berman | May 21, 2005 at 10:12 PM