Tim Brown, Author at Crisis Communications

When Analogies Go Awry

One famous part in the movie “Walk the Line” was when the character of Jerry Lee Lewis said, “God gave us a […]

Mistake 1. It happened. The leak. The sinkhole. The radioactive water. Sometimes nothing can be done about those things. Sometimes they can. […]

Imagine you and I are looking down into a room and we see someone bonking into the walls trying to get out. […]

Knowing that: Everything you hide will one day be discovered; People already feel you keep things secret; People think secret things are […]

You may not know ALL the details of global activity. Your audience may not know, either. But if you’re going to be […]

Sometimes some people do things that violate the bounds of common sense to the point that no amount of damage control can […]

The fact is the body doesn’t lie (unless you’re really, really good). If body language accounts for some 85% of our nonverbal […]

We learned it at a young age: there are always consequences. Sometimes good ones, sometimes bad. No one argues that San Francisco […]

Samsung is to be applauded. It has done the right thing. In the face of a massive crisis (cellphone batteries catching fire), […]

In words made famous by Harrison Ford’s Jack Ryan character in Clear and Present Danger, “There’s no sense defusing a bomb after […]