Strategically monitoring and managing your online reputation If you are not aggressively monitoring your own and your organization’s online presence, you are not only missing big-time opportunities, you are also potentially enabling damage toward reputations that might otherwise be avoided. Here’s why: What is said about you online is more critical now than ever before [...]
June 8, 2009
As the New York Times navigates rough terrain with its employees – which include reporters for both the Times and the Boston Globe – a nice nugget appeared today on NPR’s Marketplace. Reporters, it seems, have become the story as they vote on negotiated pay cuts. The story itself is worth a listen. The reporter, [...]
May 22, 2009
Why CEO Salaries are so High Read Part I and Part II. Important facts about CEO salaries tend to be ignored by the news media. The back-story, the realities of CEO compensation, are far more complex than what can fit into a 30-second series of sound-bites on the evening news, and the complexities are often [...]
May 21, 2009
Why the News Media Attack Corporate Executives Read Part I here. The reason for such outcry about CEO behavior is not because what CEOs do is arrogant – it just appears that way. It is not because their salaries are out of line – if that were the case, celebrities’ salaries, which are higher on [...]
May 20, 2009
The Story Behind Automaker CEO PR Disasters There’s nothing quite like a news story in which a corporate CEO is photographed in handcuffs. As the perceived pinnacle of global malfeasance, today’s CEO is widely vilified, and often for good reason. Or so it is assumed. Nothing illustrated the wide disconnect between CEOs and the masses [...]
June 22, 2009