A small number of high-profile companies (including Adobe, GE, and Accenture)1 have abandoned traditional performance management in favor of less formal and quantifiable approaches that prioritize ongoing conversation over annual ratings.
But, the work of public relations, or "PR," is the dark art that's impossible to measure, the craft of indirectly encouraging or persuading the crowd to seemingly engage in organic chatter about something, to somehow become a natural part of an ongoing conversation that, over time, incepts the audience to become, somewhat unknowingly, evangelists for a certain point of view.
Over the course of the past two years, the ongoing conversations between Mitchell, O'Hare, and Peterson have outgrown those modest expectations.
"I have ongoing conversations.
There are ongoing conversations all the time".
With the show, she is anxious to join ongoing conversations about racism and privilege in a way that is "productive and useful", without replicating the same power structures she's critiquing by taking over the debate.
Asked twice whether she had spoken to Netanyahu since last week's US-Israeli rift over Israel's plans to build 1,600 new Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, she said: "We are engaged in ongoing conversations between our two governments".
It needs ongoing conversations and space for both parties to be heard and listened to.
"We are having ongoing conversations with all our stakeholders," he said.
"In our ongoing conversations with our customers, we continue to receive indications of further deployment delays".
