This is m-news, M Power's monthly e-newsletter. We hope you enjoy reading it. Feel free to forward it to friends or colleagues who may find it useful.

M Power is a communication and events company. m-news includes information about related themes - six quick snippets about business, organisational and individual effectiveness, communication and public relations.

Communication empowers.

Karen Morath, managing director, M Power

We did the maths on our usual mass sending of Christmas cards and decided – with apologies to Australia Post and our usual charity card seller – that there is a better way to spend money.

So instead we have donated the same amount of money to the Ronald McDonald Houses adjacent to Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital.

They make an incredible contribution to families with a sick child and as such, like most, are a very worthy charity.

They also serve as a reminder that while we spend Christmas shopping and making plans for the new year, to acknowledge our extraordinary good fortune and appreciate it for the privilege it is.

No tips or quotes and certainly no gratuitous plugs in this issue of m-news, but we have included a non-business book recommendation that is a good read at this reflective time of year.

The media is in the non-ratings ‘silly season’ period, so like other respected publications(!) m-news is going to follow suit.

In January and February, we are publishing selected highlights of our more than two and a half years of writing m-news.  We hope you find something you value.

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