Hello . . . and welcome to the new-look Corporate Hallucinations! We decided to give it a face lift in order to make it a little less generic, a little more fun . . . and easier to read. We hope it worked. If you have any feedback, positive or negative, let us know in [...]

Isn’t it a tad bit ironic that "press people," aka public relations professionals, always get more bad press than anyone else? They’re called spin doctors and spin meisters and flacks and hacks and all sorts of other names. People generally don’t trust them. Now, professional PR people will tell you that they don’t spin. They [...]

I do a lot of focus groups with employees, trying to gauge how they feel about a company’s communication efforts. And if you do enough of these focus groups, you get very good at one thing: being able to tell when someone is lying. I can spot a liar in focus group immediately. I’m like [...]

Cindy and I had an interesting argument the other day, and I'm wondering if anyone else wants to weigh in on my side. If you want to weigh in on Cindy's side, please keep your comments to yourself. We were sitting in the airport in Chicago, about to fly off to one city or another, [...]

As regular Hallucinations readers know, I’ve written negative things about Barack Obama in the space. I’ve also written negative things about George Bush, Sarah Palin, IT People, John McCain, Molly Ivins, Rush Limbaugh, HR People, the Pope, my cats, Jesus, and Santa Claus. Maybe it’s me. But I think it’s time I came clean on [...]

Greetings from Quebec City, Canada! This is my first time up here . . . and I have to say, it may be the most beautiful city I’ve ever been in . . .  and I’ve been lucky enough to have been to some good ones. The trip didn’t start out well, though, because when [...]

There’s a strange new breed of people wandering the country’s airports these days. There aren’t all that many of these creatures yet . . . but from what I can tell, they’re growing in number at an alarming rate. I call them the ToiletHeads. You’ve probably seen these people. In order to make themselves as [...]