Risk & Reputation Insights
Observations, ideas and caustic commentary at the busy crossroads of reputation, culture and common sense

How to Dodge the Delete Key and Deliver a Media Pitch Reporters Can’t Resist
There is no doubt that a great media story can do wonders for a company’s reputation and revenues. But generating such stories is harder than it used to be. Thanks to the faltering economics of the news business, the days of schmoozing friendly reporters over lunch...

Thinking About Editing Wikipedia? Think Again.
5 Things Leaders Need to Know About Wikipedia
Since 2001, Wikipedia has grown to become the world’s go-to encyclopedia of online knowledge. With more than 55 million articles in 309 languages (6.4 million in English alone) it’s hard to look up anything these days and not immediately find a relevant Wikipedia...

12 Key Habits to Strengthen Your Online Reputation
The start of a new year is a time when we resolve to get our acts together and finally accomplish all the important things we promised ourselves we would in our business and personal lives last January. The problem we have is that simply resolving to do things...

Politics at Work: Safeguarding Reputation in the Age of Activism
A version of this article appeared originally in Strategies & Tactics. Within days of the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, reports began surfacing on social media of protesters who were spotted at the Capitol being fired by their employers. Some of the...
eBook — Building Crisis Immunity: 5 Strategies to Protect your Reputation and Create a Stronger, More Crisis-Resistant Enterprise
If events of the last year have taught businesses anything, it’s that the most epic contingency plans only go so far in the face of a cascading national or international crisis. In a post-Covid world, being ready for disaster is no longer enough. Leaders must be...

5 Things that Don’t Belong in Your Crisis Management Plan
“When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter,” William Strunk Jr. wrote in his diminutive masterwork on brevity, The Elements of Style. That's also true for crisis plans. The longer a crisis plan gets for the sake of "covering all the bases," the less...
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