I have been derelict with my blog so the guilt is driving me to spend some time today to post about a fascinating research analysis of when CEOs engage in questionable behavior and how the board responds to these reputation-damaging missteps. In an article by professors...
I came across this interesting chart in a report by the Harris Poll 2016 about which potential scenarios are most damaging to reputation, according to the American public. The results make clear that the greatest threat to corporate reputation is being dishonest, unethical and hiding the...
It has been a long time coming but in the annual corporate reputation survey by PatientView among more than 1,000 patient groups in 72 countries, 45% reported that pharma had a Good or Excellent reputation in 2015, up from 39% the year before. That is...
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Weber Shandwick’s annual calculation of reputation loss – the “stumble rate” – finds the lowest rate of loss since we began calculating and tracking this rate back in 2010. During 2015, just about one-quarter of the world’s largest companies lost their esteemed status as the...
As you know from reading my blog, we at Weber Shandwick have been researching civility in America for some six years now. The reputation of our beloved USA is a topic that would be hard to avoid with all the incivility hogging the airwaves in this election cycle. Don't...
"One, even a really terrible situation can get worse, and two, poor leadership can do more damage than anyone would imagine." Two truths about crisis from Geoff Colvin of Fortune in his Power Sheet newsletter. Very powerful and very true....
A few notes from my week...
Have you wondered like me why firms that are good end up being good targets? Is being number 2 easier than being number 1? Maybe so. Fortune calls this the “good company, good target” phenomenon. In short, the more virtuous the company, the more problematic....
The Global Risk Management Survey by AON is out for 2015. I always look forward to learning what is keeping 1,400 global risk management professionals up at night. This year, damage to reputation/brand is number one, having moved up from number four one year earlier. The...
There are many ways to ding a reputation. I even wrote an article about it called Reputation Warfare. A new "old" way to protest against a company or individual has recently emerged
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