Communications professional. Strategic marketer. Brand builder. Managing Director at mononews. Opinionated fan of the written word, dogs, horses and shoes. Aficionado of Social Media and Single Malt. Extreme adult. Ever learning. Believe that if it's worth doing, it's worth doing well. Being the eldest child might explain my tendency to try and overachieve.

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Author Archives: Robin Thornton

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How do you define success?

March 31, 2013 on by

How do you define success? Is it the amount of money you make? The title you hold? How many people report to you? Is it the value of you house or stock portfolio? Is it where you live, the car you drive or the schools your or your children attend? Is it your Klout score, [...]

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How Stereotypes Happen

February 25, 2013 on by

People like to classify, define, list, categorize, enumerate, track, organize and quantify. This allows us to feel we have a handle on things. It gives us some measure of control, because knowing everything possible about a given thing makes it somewhat predictable. People like order and consistency. Most of us like a certain amount of [...]

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To those I am about to unfollow, I apologize!

January 31, 2013 on by

This is a letter to those people who I have unfollowed, or who have followed me and I have followed back, but have subsequently unfollowed, and to those people who I have chosen not to follow, even though they have been kind enough to follow me. First of all, I sincerely apologize! Life is about [...]

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What My Dogs Have Taught Me About Communicating

December 31, 2012 on by

As a child, we always had family dogs. We had a couple of cats too. My parents believed that having a pet helped teach responsibility and foster maturity. I loved all of our dogs growing up, but it was only when I got my first dog as an adult that I really realized what a [...]

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How To Do Business with a Guy (If You Are a Woman)

December 1, 2012 on by

In my debut article here at Leaderswest, I wrote a post entitled “How to do Business with a Woman (If you are a guy)”.  It got quite a response.  Ted Rubin was kind enough to comment and added, “How about a follow-up… How to Do Business with a Guy (If You Are a Woman). That [...]

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How Twitter is like online dating

October 31, 2012 on by

I am currently single. I don’t go out to bars, mostly because that entails staying out way past my normal bedtime. I don’t date where I work and all of my friends are happily married, and, so it seems, are all their friends. While I am often stopped and asked for directions – and this [...]

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How to master the art of listening

August 31, 2012 on by

“If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.” Turkish Proverb Listening is key As a PR/Communications person, I may be a bit of a strange bird, because I am preoccupied with listening. However, I didn’t just wake up one morning and decide, “I’m going to focus on listening.”  It gradually became a concept that concerned [...]

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