Shut Doors and Improve PR
Humans are bad at eliminating options, and it costs us dearly in job performance, relationships and effectiveness, says an article in today’s International Herald Tribune that reviews a book by Dan Ariely called Predictably Irrational. According to experiments carried out by Ariely, a professor of bahavioural economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), people will go [...]
Entertaining the “R” word. Will you embrace, spin or hide from that elephant in the room?
“Entertaining the ‘R’ word” is rather poetic, isn’t it? Would it surprise you to know that it was economist Derek Holt (assistant chief economist, RBC Economics Research) who came up with that phrase? Derek is providing the (opening keynote) Economic Update 2008 at my organization’s annual Controllers’ Congress, which begins on Thursday, February 21st. For [...]
The germans launch an amazing web site for public relations knowledge. Take a good look!
May I attract your careful attention to a new site just developed by the German Public Relations Association in cooperation with the University of Leipzig? This is the link. Take a good look and comment. It is an amazing breakthrough for professional associations, for professionals and scholars alike and it certainly would benefit from your [...]
US Office of Labour Statistics releases new definitions of public relations practice and new data on numbers of professionals and their average annual income.
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on February 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The US Bureau of Labour Statistics has just released new and very interesting data on public relations practice in the US economy here and here.
The most startling element of this new report is the substantial difference from the 2007 one in the description of the function.
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