We are supposed to be short of trust and reputations are certainly under constant and vicious attack. We need to see where trust really does lie, and whether we ought to recalibrate our assessment of reputations.
Posted by Paul Seaman under Trust and reputations on 19 August 2010. 3 comments.
What are we PRs to do with the troublesome issue of privacy? We certainly have an interest in leading this debate because reputations are linked to the public’s perception of its protection. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Trust and reputations on 19 August 2010. One comment.
Google’s Eric Schmidt says we should be able to reinvent our identity at will. That’s daft. But he’s got a point. Most personalities possess more than one side. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Trust and reputations on 13 August 2010. 5 comments.
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / Trust and reputations on 10 August 2010. 3 comments.
I’m home refreshed after two weeks in the Swiss canton Ticino on the shores of Lake Lugano. It didn’t take long, however, for me to get my focus back and decide to take a swipe at some PR nonsense. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / Trust and reputations on 12 July 2010. 4 comments.
‘Do No Evil’ Google has, rightly, returned to China. However, Google was also right when it withdrew because its reputation and survival were at stake. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / Trust and reputations on 3 June 2010. No comments.
Prudential CEO Tidjane Thiam has just learnt the hard way that he is accountable first and foremost to his shareholders. His climb down over the £24.6 billion proposed bid for AIA now looks set to cost his company £450 million and might yet cost him his job. We care partly because the Pru has for decades been the watchword of, well, prudence. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / Crisis management / Energy issues / Trust and reputations on 18 May 2010. 5 comments.
Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / Trust and reputations on 23 April 2010. 8 comments.
I had thought that Facebook would go the way of Friends Reunited, Bebo and MySpace: hyped today, sidelined tomorrow. But what if Facebook became the new Google? That’s now the company’s objective and it is backed by some substance. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / Credit Crunch / Trust and reputations on 20 April 2010. One comment.
Here’s a PR manifesto offering a post-credit crunch reality check that sticks up for maintaining the primacy of shareholder value in business. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin / Trust and reputations on 8 April 2010. 4 comments.
In 1994 Tony Blair promised to turn the UK into a “stakeholder society” when he declared New Labour, New Britain. It was the cornerstone of his “Third Way” politics. But nobody’s talking about either term in the current UK General Election. Maybe the wheels will come off the “stakeholder” rhetoric in business too. More »
