The Art Of Not Listening

Fifth in a Series on Reputation Management and Risk Communications

“These are the times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
– Thomas Paine, December 19, 1776

According to Sir Thomas Malory’s masterful work, Le Morte d’Arthur — the mainspring tales of the legendary Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table — a young King Arthur…