September 13, 2016January 26, 2022Common Sense, Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Damage Control, Uncategorized Why Hurt Yourself? Knowing that: Everything you hide will one day be discovered; People already feel you keep things secret; People think secret things are […]
September 8, 2016January 26, 2022Common Sense, Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Damage Control Prepare. Prepare. Then PREPARE MORE. You may not know ALL the details of global activity. Your audience may not know, either. But if you’re going to be […]
September 6, 2016January 26, 2022Body Language, Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Damage Control Hips Don’t Lie The fact is the body doesn’t lie (unless you’re really, really good). If body language accounts for some 85% of our nonverbal […]
September 3, 2016January 26, 2022Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Damage Control Consequences We learned it at a young age: there are always consequences. Sometimes good ones, sometimes bad. No one argues that San Francisco […]
September 3, 2016January 29, 2022Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Damage Control Doing Right When Things Go Wrong Samsung is to be applauded. It has done the right thing. In the face of a massive crisis (cellphone batteries catching fire), […]
September 2, 2016January 29, 2022Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Damage Control Defusing a Crisis In words made famous by Harrison Ford’s Jack Ryan character in Clear and Present Danger, “There’s no sense defusing a bomb after […]
August 31, 2016September 1, 2016Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Damage Control 3 Things Cause a Communications Crisis In my experience, typically those in trouble with the media are there because of one of three things. The first is because […]