Research and development. R&D. Skunk works. Whatever you call it, when I think about great products and the teams that build them I’m reminded of Batman’s fictional laboratories, with Morgan Freeman down in the Batcave cooking up novel gadgets and exploring weaponized hallucinogens. While not as mysterious as the DC Universe, research is also the […]
The PR Crisis Equation: Lost Trust (Over Time) + Number of Folks Who Lost It
When I think about crises, I often think about the metaphor of the “straw that broke the camel’s back”. The straw can come from anywhere in your industry, not just your brand, and the camel’s back is an X factor of a critical mass of people, appropriately animated and capable of causing brand challenges. Even […]