This post is personal; a relative goal to travel from Me to We
“A goal is a dream with a deadline” Recently I was in a meeting where this quote was featured on a wall and I quite liked it, with my first…
The Business of Business is… Responsible Business: where public relations becomes relevant, in the form of stakeholder relationship management
1. The perspective of this new-year note on ‘the business of business is responsible business’ is that the current economic crisis is only one of the consequences of a historic…
Evolving PR – ready to learn a new dance?
On the doorstep to Christmas, I thought I would mention my favourite game this year. ‘Spore’ lets you evolve from a tiny cell into a creature that you nurture over…
Dear Santa, a four-pronged wish list for public relators in 2009 from a non believer. Be sure to check out the fourth, as it relates directly to YOU, visitor/reader/commenter of this blog!
1. Please discourage my colleagues from offering, arguing, pushing individual as well as organizational visibility as a ‘strategic’ and desirable objective. Peeing in the pot is more strategic and less…
Gorillas and the absence of altruism
Back in September, Heather Yaxley launched a fascinating and heated debate on the role of PR under the fairly tame title “A radical view of PR“. One thread of the…
CCO’s from major global corporations discuss the path from sustainability to durability. A blind report from a secret summit…
Last week I participated to an exclusive and ‘secret’ summit of CCO’s from 15 major global corporations during which they discussed some of the major challenges facing their increasingly relevant…
Public relations “On The Edge”; offline in June ‘09, online right now
The Canadian Public Relations Society is holding its next annual conference, On The Edge, in Vancouver, British Columbia, from June 7 to 9, 2009. Its website is already up and…
Who’s turn is to hit the coalface? The Swedes show the way in Professional Association Management and the results are impressive. Let’s take, for once, a glass half full approach.
In a recent exchange on this here blog Catherine Arrow wrote: … Somebody, somewhere has to hit the coalface first, and… (this) is the job of associations, so their members…
My major takeaways from the Milano Euprera Congress. How our professional community can help bridge the gap between what is really happening in the global market place and what we think is happening.
While there were few remaining doubts in Milano for me that the institutionalization process of the public relations function is ‘a fact of organizational life’, especially after the presentation of…
This current crisis: you have only one fiche to play. Red or Black? Where reputation and relationships belong to two conflicting options…
In these last two weeks -as I am sure each of you- I have been struggling to make some sense out of what is happening in the world, in order…