risk management

19 Feb CEO activism plusses and minuses

Posted at 10:43h in Activist CEOs, Business, CEO activism, CEO communications, CEOs, Corporate activism, Crisis management, Politics, Reputation Management, Research, risk management, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Here are three recent pieces reflecting on CEO activism since the president's executive order on immigration. One I wrote for HBR and the other two are full of compelling arguments about whether CEOs should speak up or not, should be on the president's advisory council or not....

25 Jan A View from the CEO World

Posted at 15:20h in CEO communications, CEOs, CSR, Customers, Public engagement, reputation, risk management, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Social purpose has become fully ingrained in business. A new 2016 report (this is their 19th) from PwC among 1,409 CEOs in 83 countries was unveiled at Davos and found that 76% of CEOs define business success by more than the bottom line, 69% link their company's purpose...

08 Nov CxOs Predicting the Future

Posted at 15:03h in Media, Research, risk management, social media, Thought leadership, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Here's a positive look at thought leadership. Thought leadership always fascinates me because everyone is a thought leader today (or at least they think they are). In an amazingly robust study by IBM among more than 5,000 CxOs, these high placed executives were asked what resources...

31 Jul Taming one’s inner incivility

Posted at 16:29h in CEO reputation, CEOs, Communications, corporate reputation, Reputation building, Reputation crisis, reputation recovery, risk management, Uncategorized 0 Comments

I have been really bad about blogging. I was on vacation and then returned to a week of chaotic and intense report writing and analysis. I barely know what the weather was this past week but I have a reprieve right now and am excited...

21 Jun Guardrails for CEO Activists

Posted at 06:14h in Activist CEOs, CEOs, corporate reputation, Crisis management, CSR, Public engagement, Reputation trends, risk management, Thought leadership, Uncategorized 1 Comment

Is CEO activism the wave of the future? Salesforce CEO Marc Benifoff thinks so.Benioff believes that CEOs as a group are becoming more socially and politically active. “[T]here is a third [political] party emerging in this country,” he recently opined, “which is the party of...

01 May Reputation damage tops the lists of fears

Posted at 16:52h in Business, corporate reputation, crisis, Cyber attacks, Media, Most Admired, Reputation crisis, reputation damage, Reputation loss, Reputation Management, reputation risk, Reputation trends, Research, risk management, Stumble Rate, Uncategorized 0 Comments

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...

19 Apr Reputation risk is here to stay

Posted at 11:14h in Reputation crisis, Reputation phrases, reputation risk, Reputation trends, risk management, social media, Uncategorized 0 Comments

It has been awhile. I was curious to see how mentions of “reputation risk” had changed, if at all, in the global top tier media since the year before. Every year we conduct a Factiva search of the term to track its progress over the years. As you...

05 Apr How management impacts recovery in mass fatality disasters

Posted at 16:00h in CEO communications, CEO reputation, CEOs, Communications, corporate reputation, crisis, Crisis management, Leadership, Measurement/metrics, Reputation crisis, Reputation Management, Reputation resilience, Reputation trends, Research, risk management, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Like many people, I've been following the Lufthansa crisis non-stop as more information continues to surface. A recent article in Quartz on the horrific tragedy reminded me of the excellent work that comes out of Oxford Metrica, an analytics and advisory firm on reputational issues. I...

16 Jan 2015 Risks

Posted at 17:36h in Crisis management, Cyber attacks, Reputation crisis, reputation damage, Reputation loss, reputation risk, risk management 0 Comments

Allianz issues an annual risk report and it is fascinating to see how risk changes so suddenly. The top risks according to 500 risk managers and corporate insurance experts in 47 countries are business interruption and supply chain (#1), natural catastrophes (#2), and fire and explosion...

08 Jan A Reputation Recovery

Posted at 14:58h in CEOs, corporate reputation, Crisis management, reputation, Reputation crisis, reputation damage, Reputation Management, reputation recovery, reputation risk, Reputation trends, risk management, Stumble Rate, Women 0 Comments

The title of the article says it all, "Sailing through a scandal." Rupert Murdoch and his empire have turned the corner on reputation recovery. As you recall, News Corp was engulfed in scandal over the phone-hacking of a murdered schoolgirl's voicemails. According to The Economist where I...