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5 Ways to Start Managing Your Online Reputation for 2013
If you have any quiet time during the holidays, it’s a great opportunity to begin managing your online reputation. I wrote a guest post for a popular PR/Marketing blog called SpinSucks. I offer five...
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5 Keys to Saving Lance Armstrong’s Personal Brand
Image Credit: Sebastian David Tingkaer Lance Armstrong has lost the fight to save his reputation from a decade of doping charges. Now, the question is, how can Armstrong save his personal brand? Before...
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Lesson from Manti Te’o: On the Internet, No One Knows You’re a Dog
Traveling on business for the past week, I caught only bits and pieces of the Manti Te’o, Lance Armstrong news cycles–on airport and hotel TVs. Back home now, I’ve caught up and seen more than enough...
View ArticleMedia Training Tip: Don’t Avoid the Reporter’s Question, Use a Bridge to Safety
As in the video above, one of the things TV reporters (and their viewers) hate most is when spokespersons ignore legitimate questions. You should never do this in a news media interview because it has...
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How to Coach Your Corporate Leaders to Become Better Communicators
We have many readers working in corporate or non-profit environments where they might have the opportunity to coach leaders on being more effective communicators. We also have a lot of readers who are...
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College Student Spring Break: 5 Tips for Reputation Protection
There was a time not too long ago when students would go on Spring Break and get crazy, with little consequence for their lives. The worst that would happen was a few secret photos among friends and...
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How Al Gore Stopped Being Boring, and You Can Too
“What we are looking for are leaders at every level who can energize, excite and inspire…” Jack Welch GE CEO, retired When Al Gore began his run for the presidency in 1999, he was plagued by a...
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5 Ways to Start Managing Your Online Reputation for 2013
If you have any quiet time during the holidays, it’s a great opportunity to begin managing your online reputation. I wrote a guest post for a popular PR/Marketing blog called SpinSucks. I offer five...
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4 Keys Leaders Need to Sell Themselves and Their Ideas
There was a time long ago and far away when leaders would speak and employees would take their marching orders, salute and get the job done. Many organizations have leaders who seem stuck in that...
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Why Lincoln’s Words Echo from Gettysburg
In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 150 years ago this week, Americans fought what remains the bloodiest battle on U.S. soil. After three days, of the 160,000 men who fought, one third...
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Yahoo CEO on Video Earnings Call: Breakthrough or Saturday Night Live Parody?
With a groundbreaking video conference call for Yahoo’s second quarter earnings, CEO Melissa Meyer may have started a new trend that will require a whole new level of skill by C-Suite officers during...
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3 Lessons from PGA Champ Jason Dufner on Handling a Viral Meme
By John Millen When Jason Dufner won the PGA Championship on Sunday it had to be a sweet feeling on many levels. By winning, Dufner had not only recovered from his last-minute loss of the same...
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5 Keys to Saving Lance Armstrong’s Personal Brand
Image Credit: Sebastian David Tingkaer Lance Armstrong has lost the fight to save his reputation from a decade of doping charges. Now, the question is, how can Armstrong save his personal brand? Before...
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What is Media Training?
What is media training? Despite its name, media training is not training for the media. (Though some of our clients would certainly like the media to be trained.) In any case, media training is for...
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Personal Branding: What 3 adjectives describe you?
Personal Brand: What makes you stand out? Giving a lunch talk on Personal Branding for a local business group today, I asked the audience to write down three adjectives that others would use to...
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Tapping the Power of ‘Thank You’
Celebrating Thanksgiving in the U.S. has me thinking about the power of expressing sincere gratitude to others in business, and in life. Signs are all around us on the need for...
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Is Your Perception of Veterans Unfair?
“I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.” –Iraq War veteran Phil Kay You have a job opening and receive the resume of a multiple-tour veteran of the Iraq war....
View ArticleGM CEO Mary T. Barra Releases Report Indicting Company Culture
General Motors CEO Mary T. Barra spoke to 1,000 company employees last week about the “deeply troubling” report that found the company had hidden an ignition switch defect in millions of cars, causing...
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Why President Obama’s Favorite Word is Inappropriate and Overused
Photo Credit: Reuters Folks: people in general — used to talk to a group of people in a friendly and informal way. Merriam-Webster Dictionary In an interview with “60 Minutes” this week,...
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