Posted by Paul Seaman under PR issues / Reviews on 3 March 2010. No comments.
Thanks to Richard Edelman I’m flagging an upcoming book every PR should read: Capitalism 4.0 by The Times economics analyst Anatole Kaletsky. Here’s a preview.
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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 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 PR issues on 5 November 2009. 5 comments.
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / Crisis management on 22 September 2009. 2 comments.
France Telecom has been getting unwelcome attention. It stands accused of driving 24 of its workers to suicide over an eighteen-month period. Rather than fight its corner, the company seems to prefer the old bad PR strategy: ”apologise, reform and move on”. Why so? More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Opinion research / Trust and reputations on 30 July 2009. 3 comments.
Before I head off to Montreux for a few days’ rest, here’s a quick response to today’s FT report on Edelman’s trust survey’s mid-year update. Once again the survey’s findings are topsy turvy, particularly when it comes to how Edelman interprets its own data. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Trust and reputations on 16 June 2009. 2 comments.
Some of the remarks about PR’s need to reform in McKinsey Quarterly journal (Rebuilding corporate reputations) are OK if hackneyed. But the wider thesis is very shaky. Here’s why. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check on 11 February 2009. No comments.
Boyd Neil has written a valuable manifesto in favour of CSR entitled “CR on the Hotseat” on his PR blog The Intangibles. Here’s my manifesto and it isn’t against Corporate Social Responsibility. I just put honesty as the highest responsibility. And I do think CSR has such a bad image it should be ditched in favour of sustainability, eventually. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / Crisis management on 6 February 2009. 3 comments.
The Financial Times’ management columnist Stefan Stern and others have been assessing the point and meaning of this year’s Davos. Much of it comes to the need for capitalism to express itself differently. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / Media issues / Trust and reputations on 23 January 2009. One comment.
PR Week reports that the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) executive director of communications Lesley McLeod says the banks are getting a bum rap because of “inexperienced’” reporters who “fail to understand the crisis” or the “issues” it presents. What, and the BBA has to sit idly by? Why doesn’t it get stuck in? More »
