PR: Room at the Bottom?
by Robert A. Kelly.When special events and communications tactics rule the PR roost instead of a workable plan designed to manage external audience behaviors that impact your organization the most, that’s where public ...
The Ultimate PR "Scam"
by Robert A. Kelly.It happens to business, non-profit and association managers when their public relations budget fails to deliver the crucial external audience behaviors they need to achieve their department, division...
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Dont Use PR...
by Robert A. Kelly.…lose the confidence of your key target audiences… discourage them from taking actions that lead to your success…fail to achieve your department, division or subsidiary objectives. A sad scenario th...
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Narcissism in the Boardroom
by Sam Vaknin.The perpetrators of the recent spate of financial frauds in the USA acted with callous disregard for both their employees and shareholders - not to mention other stakeholders. Psychologists have ofte...
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The Wages of Science
by Sam Vaknin.In the United States, Congress approved, last month, increases in the 2003 budgets of both the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. America is not alone in - vainly - trying...
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The Morality of Child Labor
by Sam Vaknin.From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO's often denounce child labor as their employees rush from one five star hotel to another, $3000 subnotebook...
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OPECs Swan Song?
by Sam Vaknin.Indonesia's Energy Minister, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, is unhappy with the modest production cut, from June 1, of 2 million barrels per day, adopted by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries la...
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Begging Your Trust in Africa
by Sam Vaknin.The syntax is tortured, the grammar mutilated, but the message - sent by snail mail, telex, fax, or e-mail - is coherent: an African bigwig or his heirs wish to transfer funds amassed in years of gra...
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The Self-Appointed Altruists
by Sam Vaknin.Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple...
The Ecology of Environmentalism
by Sam Vaknin.The concept of "nature" is a romantic invention. It was spun by the likes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 18th century as a confabulated utopian contrast to the dystopia of urbanization and materiali...
Bankers in Denial
by Sam Vaknin.Denial is a ubiquitous psychological defense mechanism. It involves the repression of bad news, unpleasant information, and anxiety-inducing experiences. Judging by the German press, the country is i...
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Give Yourself a Gift
by Linda LaPointe.Are you the position or the person? Bosses can lose their own identity sometimes. It’s easy. It happens a lot. The results are devastating to both the workers and to the supervisor. When we are th...
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