Category Archives: Crisis Communication
Redemption for Tiger
Tiger prefers not to. He won’t dance/Don’t ask him (Madam, with you.) Well, good for Tiger. He’s channeling Barleby the Scivener, Melville’s passive aggressive office rebel. He’s in that raggedy line of existential figures who’ve just said No. No mas. … Continue reading
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Tiger’s Twisted Tale a Simple Story
Now that a dozen women have publicly announced their Me too’s, what appears to be a story about big numbers and high complexity may not be complex at all. Shorn of the billion-dollar net worth, the prancing porn stars, the … Continue reading
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What Obama Should Say Over the Beers
SCENE: THREE MEN SEATED AT A PICNIC TABLE IN A REASONABLY PRIVATE SPOT ON THE WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS. PRESIDENT OBAMA, PROFESSOR GATES AND SERGEANT CROWLEY. OBAMA: I know. I know. This is the biggest fishbowl in the nation. I’m almost … Continue reading
Beer Diplomacy
One of my earliest posts to this blog about something I called ‘twitter diplomacy’. Last winter, amid the Israeli-Hamas skirmish over Israel’s retalliation over captured soldiers, an item appeared in the New York Times about social media. It seems that … Continue reading
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THE “SKIP” GATES DRAMA – A THEATER REVIEW
The handcuffing, perp walk and arrest of Henry Louis (“Skip”) Gates, Jr. is one of those can’t-believe-it news stories. It’s also irresisible grist for PR blogging heads like me. That a prominent citizen could be arrested for trying to get … Continue reading
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No Business Like Zoo Business
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 — Facing a brutal budget cut from cash-strapped Massachusetts, ZOO New England — Franklin Park Zoo and the smaller Stone Zoo — swung from its PR heels and hit what appears to be a PR home … Continue reading
Crisis Communication in Colombia
If you’re thinking correctly, you learn more than you teach. I’d like to think that’s what I did at the university Externado, in Bogota, Colombia, this past week. I taught a three-day, 12-hour seminar on crisis management and communication to … Continue reading
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Crisis Communication and Culture
I’ll be in Bogota next week teaching a three-day workshop on crisis communication and management at Externado, a private university. The invitation from Gustavo Yepes Lopez, a management professor I met last year at a PR conference in Scotland, reciprocated … Continue reading
Kill the Messenger
One of my outstanding Harvard Extension School students sent me the video that’s linked above. It’s a tale of skulduggery — how a powerful company can pressure, bully and threaten a news organization when the company’s neck is on the … Continue reading
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Black Swans
I know. I know. I haven’t posted in ages. But here I am, back again. This time, it’s about swans — the kind N. Taleb writes about in his best-seller, Black Swans. As he explains, until the discovery of Australia, … Continue reading
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