by Mark O'Brien | Sep 1, 2015
The Hartford Business Journal, published right here in my very own Nutmeg State, ran a piece the other day that constituted another timely reminder of Immutable Communication Rules 1 through 6. The piece was called, “Seven Secrets to Project Management...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 31, 2015
We need to resurrect insult, kids. I don’t mean we should insult each other any more than we already do. I mean it’s time to be more cognizant of being insulted when we are. Exhibit A: “A Contrarian View on Innovation in Advertising & PR”:...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 25, 2015
I was talking to my Zen master, Buzz Siddhartha, the other day. We actually don’t talk much. We usually just sort of stare at each other in ostensible attempts to achieve various states of being and nothingness. (Buzz is French on his mother’s side.) But...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 24, 2015
Bearing in mind that I write from the relatively affluent western part of the world — from the United States of America, in particular — I recognize the generalizations I express herein are limited to the socio-economic realities of geography. And I...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 21, 2015
Kevin Donnellon, president of Macali Communications, published a list of seven tips for managing prospective public-relations disasters under this headline: “Preparing For Your Jared Fogle or Spokesperson Crisis”. Mr. Donnellon’s syntactical and...