Mr. Williams’s career, like most journalists of note, was largely built on catching perpetrators and fakers by spotting those who failed to observe or purposely avoided heeding these axioms.

Brian Williams’ toxic silence strategy is having a very predictable outcome. The process reminds me of the story of the three-legged pig.

A manifesto is generally a document that contains language to motivate, activate, energize and inspire appropriate, productive and useful action. When it comes to credibility and trust, the fundamental behavior of an organization reflects its leadership and the leadership’s commitment to trustable behavior.

Managing emergencies, crises, and disasters successfully means recognizing patterns of success and avoiding patterns of failure, and defeat. Understanding these patterns enables us to coach and prepare management’s actions, emotions, and expectations before and during emergency situations.

A business organization is very similar to a political body, so we begin with a political strategy—to win in any environment, those seeking to advance, lead, or achieve must have a base of winning-minded collaborators and followers to get the job done and establish the momentum to tackle the next challenge.

The foundation of your success is your preparation for these face-to-face meetings. Your preparation is going to include developing key documents that you can share with others that directly comment, correct or clarify (CC&C) what others are saying, or advocating about you.

Richard Weiner, APR, Fellow PRSA, a distinguished 50-plus year member of PRSA and a recipient of the Society’s prestigious Gold Anvil Award, passed away on Jan. 29, 2014 in Miami Beach, Fla. He was 86.

My favorite Duck Dynasty controversy headline forecasted the latest example of media and public relations “expert” miscalculation.

All you reporters horrified by Target’s 3-day delay in announcing that its credit card operation had been hacked can settle down now. You spent the whole of last week trying to get Target on the hook for something it was victimized by.

If you, your product, your brand, or your reputation is visible, someone out there is watching, counting, analyzing and probably commenting. You need to monitor news media and social media at a reasonably high level in order to provide analysis and recommendations to management for action, or inaction.