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Selfish Altruism: Ned Lundquist on Origins of the JOTW and an Appeal to Take the Annual Comms Survey

Sword and the Script

It seemed like any ordinary day in August of 2002. >>> Do you work in communications, PR, public affairs, marcom, or a related field? It immediately generated responses from my newly formed network, and two of those responses led to job offers, with one of these leading to my getting hired for a corporate VP job.

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3 former PR pros who made mid-career shifts and lived to talk about it

Communications Conversations

You could replace “agency life” with “corporate life” and insert a whole other sub-set of people, too. Kelly Groehler, Tim Westermeyer and Betsy Andersen all traded in their corporate and agency PR careers for work in another field. They all knew that I had no interest in returning to a corporate role.

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Maxim Behar in Kamen Vodenicharov's show "The Evening of." on 7/8 TV

Maxim Behar

And in a crisis especially in corporations, that truth needs to be repeated even louder and even more clearly. In 2002 I was responsible for coming up with the standard of the country’s business ethics. I think politics and public affairs should be done by people who can answer any question.

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