“If you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” It’s a concept familiar to every schoolboy. If you’re only looking for one thing, that’s what you will find — every time. Take…
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No Mistakes & No Escape
Crisis PR in the digital age: No escaping tethers of smartphones & 24/7 news. To Einstein, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result was the definition…
Dissipation of Wealth & Reputation
Reputation threat? You have a choice: Fix it now, or it becomes a reality later. Do you have a reputation to protect? Or do you have a reputation? Very different concepts.…
Protocol vs. Risk
Some fixes may work “most of the time.” But the client wants one to work this time. Consider this: Ten labor lawyers are presented with a problem and asked what to…
The End of Belief?
Little room for hope? Less for trust? You need Crisis PR more than ever. Is it any wonder an entire generation stopped believing? They wanted to have faith. To wit, their embrace…
Never Having to Say You’re Guilty
When the worst happens, you’re on your own. You must define the terms of the debate. The public never really trusted Wall Street. That relationship went from bad to worse in the economic…
The Fixers
You don’t need to like other people. But you do need to love the game. “Hell is other people.” ~ Existentialist French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in his 1944 play “No Exit.”…
Truth Is What You Believe It Is
There’s no Truth with a capital “T.” Just perception and what you’re most comfortable with. When the Nobel committee announced the winners of its prize for economics this year, people were left…
The Underbelly of Finessing Reputation
“Can’t fool all the people all the time. But with the internet, you can get close.” Since time immemorial, there have been those who polished the reputations of others. Plato did it…
Motives vs. Merits
You won’t hear much about the merits. You win or lose on an emotional level. NIMBYism. Not a new concept. Not always straightforward, either. The truth is, We see what we want…