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Why Now Is the Time to Eliminate Jargon and Buzzwords

PRSay

In their 2005 book, “Why Business People Speak Like Idiots,” authors Brian Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway and Jon Warshawsky wrote that employees perceive jargon, hype and buzzwords as packaged and inauthentic. This includes strengthening leadership at all levels and strengthening capability across our organization. How did we do?

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In Memoriam: Judy VanSlyke Turk, Ph.D., APR, Fellow PRSA

PRSay

Turk had an exceptional reputation as a researcher and educator in our field, and impacted the lives of thousands of students and hundreds of faculty members through her many years of leadership,” said Marcus Messner, Ph.D., Berger Educator Mentor Award from the University of Alabama’s Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations in 2013.

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What Role Will Reputation Play If Britain Is To Become A New Silicon Valley?

PR in High Definition

For example, WANdisco, a Sheffield-based data company that was founded in 2005, had often throughout its journey been touted as a U.K. Crucial to this is to view leadership reputation management as a business imperative, and not something that you can neglect at any moment. Recently, it was set to be listed on the U.S. tech scene.

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When A Founder Does PR Damage

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Munster advises Musk to ignore short sellers and reminds him that the perception of “think-skinned and short-tempered” leadership is not helpful to his company. Gene Munster, founder of VC firm Loup Ventures, offers relevant advice in an open letter to Elon Musk following the cave diver episode. It starts with an apology.

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World Communicators Want Your Questions

Landis PR

A member since 2005, Landis has the benefit and delight to be working with our partners from Japan to Germany, Chile to South Africa, Australia to Denmark, Ireland to Argentina, and everywhere in between.

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Owning public relations as a management discipline

Wadds Inc.

You can’t blame the professional associations although they have a leadership role. Its purpose, set out in a Royal Charter in 2005, is to promote professional public relations to practitioners and public understanding. You’ll understand while I side with the CIPR. Public relations is often misunderstood.

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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

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About 2,200 local print newspapers have closed since 2005, cutting the number of newspaper journalists by more than half between 2008 and 2020. Daily newspaper circulation in the United States has fallen from its height of 61.8 million in 1974 to 24.3 million in 2020, according to Pew Research Center.

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