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 Media issues / PR issues on 4 May 2010. 3 comments.
Here’s the second in my trilogy on the Stockholm Accords. This one deals with the Accords themselves, following part 1′s examination of their definition of terms. 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 »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management on 12 February 2010. One comment.
Contrary to popular crisis management mythology, most dramas and disasters aren’t really crises at all. Chin up: things aren’t often really all that bad. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management on 3 February 2010. 3 comments.
Made public yesterday, the last words from a family of four: “We’re in a Lexus. . . and we’re going north on 125 and our accelerator is stuck. . . we’re in trouble. . . there’s no brakes. . . we’re approaching the intersection. . . hold on. . . hold on and pray. . . pray.” More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Energy issues / PR issues / Trust and reputations on 29 November 2009. 6 comments.
BBC Newsnight recently claimed that UK government plans to build a new generation of nuclear power stations to fill the energy gap by 2020 are hopelessly optimistic. The industry responded by claiming it will be on time and on budget. It’s a phoney debate on both sides. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under PR issues / Zurich on 12 November 2009. One comment.
When local boy Roman Geiser, Burson-Marsteller’s Swiss CEO, was catapulted into the stratosphere as Chief Operating Officer for EMEA, I just had to make the twenty-minute train ride to Zurich to interview him. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under PR issues on 5 November 2009. 5 comments.
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / PR issues on 14 October 2009. One comment.
I’ve got that post-holiday feeling (seven days by Lake Lugano, thanks). You’ll know it. Suddenly I think I understand lots of stuff … So here’s what I think is going wrong in a good deal of PR thought. More »
