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Posted on June 25th, 2015 by admin
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This is a case study of what to do when a CEO dies unexpectedly at a young age. Employees need time to mourn but they also need to be refocused on their jobs. HR has to parry calls from companies seeking to recruit away staff. Senior executives need mentoring for how to carry on […]
Posted on June 23rd, 2015 by admin
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Politicians are already on the low side of the honesty scale, but one wonders if they are allowed to make up quotations that people never said. Consider this case. Apparently our founding fathers never wrote some of things attributed to them by book author and politician, Rand Paul. Or, at least, quotes are misinterpretations of […]
Posted on June 22nd, 2015 by admin
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What can one say about this fellow that is positive PR? Comedians use him as the butt of jokes. He has been a long-standing embarrassment to society, a self-regarding egotist, and a man filled with a sense of self-importance. In nearly every way, he is anti-PR yet he continues to get publicity for himself and his […]
Posted on June 18th, 2015 by admin
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The Greek debt default negotiations have been interesting to watch. Greek politicians have taken the position of “Save me or I’ll cut my throat.” They are demanding debt relief without any more changes to the country’s budget structure. As European negotiators have tired of telling them, that is not possible because the country cannot turn […]
Posted on June 17th, 2015 by admin
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Twitter’s CEO is looking for a job after failing to turn the social medium into a profitable communications service. The wonder is why. Twitter has hundreds of millions of users and visitors. It is a darling of traditional media who tweet daily about what they are reporting and carry on discussions with readers. It is […]
Posted on June 16th, 2015 by admin
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It is little wonder that the public doesn’t trust politicians when hacks seek to monetize everything. Consider this instance. Sit with Hillary for $2700. That’s cheap, but the image it projects is of a candidate for sale when a politician should be demonstrating integrity to the public. Instead, it is bucks here and there and everywhere. Candidates […]
Posted on June 15th, 2015 by admin
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How do you handle PR when your idea has smashed into an impenetrable wall? This is a problem for Republican governors who rose to their elected offices with a pledge of “no new taxes.” They are facing budget deficits without revenue to offset them. So, they are taking pragmatic action. They are selectively raising taxes […]
Posted on June 12th, 2015 by admin
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Someone tampered with the data in Google’s search and posited this as an explanation for the disappearance of dinosaurs. Google had no explanation for how it happened. Data tampering happens constantly, and Google is put in the position of catching up rather than being proactive and correcting misinformation. The problem is endemic to Big Data. […]
Posted on June 11th, 2015 by admin
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Facebook is celebrating the one-billionth download of its messenger app. It is not the only company to have reached that number but it is extraordinary nevertheless. It is hard to conceptualize big numbers and a billion is beyond the imagination of most people. That is the population of the US nearly three times over — […]
Posted on June 10th, 2015 by admin
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