PR becomes difficult for a company that has passed its peak in the marketplace and is on a downturn. Consider GoPro. A year ago, it was the video camera to have if one is athletic and wanted to record one’s activities. Now it is struggling to make sales and earnings forecasts. and it is branching […]
Posted on October 30th, 2015 by admin
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When an organization doesn’t know what to do, transparency in its actions can harm rather than help. It becomes clear to observers that the entity is drifting on strange seas. Such may be the case for the Federal Reserve. There are claims that it doesn’t know how to handle inflation and is clueless on the […]
Posted on October 29th, 2015 by admin
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Volkswagen has done wrong and deserves to be punished, but should it have to endure this kind of pain? The scramble of tort lawyers to find clients has long been disgusting, especially since lawyers stand to gain more from the class action suits than plaintiffs. There ought to be a better way to get justice […]
Posted on October 28th, 2015 by admin
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Character is often revealed in little things, and it is those small items that people look for. Take, for example, this event. Being told to move from a quiet car is hardly a piece of news, but the way one went is. If Christie had apologized and moved to another train car, there wouldn’t have been much […]
Posted on October 27th, 2015 by admin
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There are eight days to go before the borrowing authority of the US Treasury runs out. The Secretary of the Treasury has sounded an alarm, but Congress is busy. For one, the House has to elect a new Speaker. There is a good chance that authorization will pass in the nick of time but House […]
Posted on October 26th, 2015 by admin
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Amazon.com is carrying on a public battle of words with The New York Times. Amazon is outraged over the Time’s expose of working conditions inside the company. The Times is standing by its lengthy story. Amazon is breaking the basic rule of never fight with a company that buys ink by the barrel. It would […]
Posted on October 21st, 2015 by admin
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Fox news has removed a so-called expert from its group of regular interviewees because the fellow lied about his background and now is indicted for fraud. The individual claimed to have worked in the CIA for 27 years, but apparently he didn’t. He had been a frequent guest on Fox news since 2002. One wonders […]
Posted on October 20th, 2015 by admin
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Amazon is suing more than a thousand freelancers for their phony reviews of products. Amazon is concerned that such fakery will harm the credibility of its own review system. The suit is important, although it won’t stop false statements about products and services. The web is too wild and free for one lawsuit to make […]
Posted on October 19th, 2015 by admin
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It is a constant lesson in business, often repeated here, that no organization or individual is safe in the marketplace. In the last two days, we learned of two more examples of stumbles by major corporations — American Express and Wal-Mart. This is why CEOs should exhibit a healthy paranoia about their businesses. Some thing […]
Posted on October 16th, 2015 by admin
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A long-standing PR headache for pharmaceutical companies has been the price of drugs in the US by comparison to other countries. It is a self-inflicted pain that the companies defend because they say it costs millions for them to discover and produce new cures for diseases and they have as many failures as successes. That […]
Posted on October 13th, 2015 by admin
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