Overtly trying to control the conversation can do far more harm to your reputation than good.
With the disorder online, social media still became the center of the 2012 Olympics, as each organization attempted to control the conversation to accommodate their own agendas and motives.
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GlaxoSmithkline executives believe that anticipating negative Web buzz around Alli, the over-the-counter diet drug it introduced in June, helped it control the conversation about the drug and its embarrassing side effects.
They became privy to the conversation about how best to control costs.
Most of them are being tasked with coming up with new go-to-market strategies that take into consideration a new consumer empowered by technology and in control of the conversation.
My colleagues here at CEB, Matt Dixon and Brent Adamson, have written extensively about commercial insight in a book that has taken the B2B sales and marketing community by storm: The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation.
But I think you take control because you want the conversation to move and not kind of be stuck on it.
Hardly a good way to start a national conversation and a potential series of reforms on gun control.
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Rather, the radio and base stations automatically select and route each mobile or portable radio to the proper channel for that specific conversation, through the use of one or more control channels.
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The pilots said there was "a concentrated period of discussion where they did not monitor the airplane or calls" from air traffic control, though both said they heard conversation on the radio, the report said.
Try to control your emotions, and don't begin the conversation in the heat of the moment.
What we can control is our capacity to have a reasoned, fair conversation between the parties and get the business of the American people done.
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The best way to control your reputation is to be an active voice in the conversation (and to give lots of money to charity if you have it).
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Larry has more control over resources, but he says for anything big they still have a conversation.
For me, the most interesting part of the conversation came as I gave him one of my standard pieces of advice: exercise tight control over technology choice, and as little as possible over technology use.
She includes recommendations on how to control unruly members, draw out those who are too timid to speak and steer the conversation away from know-it-alls who try to tell other participants what to do.
With substantive discussions about gun control, religious tolerance and parenting to a fun guest appearance by Gordon Ramsey to a pointless conversation about celebrities on Twitter, HuffPost Live entered the world yesterday.
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"In the past week, conversation on our opinion pages and on our website, LoHud.com, has been keenly focused on gun control, " the newspaper's editor and vice president, CynDee Royle, said in a statement Tuesday.
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