Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / Opinion research / Trust and reputations on 28 February 2010. 6 comments.
Here’s a manifesto in favour of decent top-down adult leadership rather than the febrile fashions of the crowd. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / Opinion research / Trust and reputations on 21 February 2010. 3 comments.
Here’s a critique of the tyranny of apologies and the hypocrisy of sponsors and the general public. It’s a call to all to stop faking it. It is a cry for the return of commonsense, reserve and a mind-your-own-business attitude. 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 CSR reality check on 10 February 2010. No comments.
Being socially aware didn’t make Big Pharma innovate. Here’s a risky piece reminding us that profit matters more than seeming nice and safe, whatever the Davos savants pretend or their mantras might say. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / West Ham United on 2 February 2010. 2 comments.
Despite having more off-side affairs than Tiger Woods, despite deceiving us all as Dad of the Year, while he dumped the kids to play away, I’m backing John Terry’s claim to remain captain of England. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under West Ham United on 19 January 2010. 9 comments.
My football club has been sold to pornographer David Sullivan and to Ann Summers‘ naughty lingerie-chain owner David Gold. Am I worried? Am I heck. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check on 6 January 2010. 9 comments.
Amnesty International has accused Shell Nigeria of human rights abuses, spreading pollution and other crimes against corporate responsibility (CSR). It provoked Paul Holmes, editor and publisher of The Holmes Report, to argue that companies will and should be held to the same standards globally. That’s a naïve response. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin / Trust and reputations on 1 December 2009. 2 comments.
The Nuclear Industry Association has just made a daft case about its future. Here’s a bolder, franker reality check PR pitch which might work better. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under PR issues 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 Opinion research / Trust and reputations on 30 September 2009. One comment.
Financial Times (FT) research suggests that the public trusts itself to look after savings and investments more than banks, building societies or independent financial advisers. Yet most respondents said that, despite their lack of trust, they had not reduced their risk levels in these bodies. More »
