Resilience
A Blog for Modern Communications
Tell Your Own Story
Five tips on turning content marketing tactics into a content communication program.
Muck Rack’s State of Journalism 2022
Insights from Muck Rack provide guidance on working with journalists today.
Welcome to the EX Era
Can you turn the great resignation into a competitive advantage? Current research shows us the way.
Navigating the Hypocrisy Trap
Companies are becoming trapped between their values and their political donations. Is there a way out?
PR’s Climate Change: The Future of Media Relations
Has the decline of media usage and trust in the media made media relations obsolete?
Edelman Barometer: Distrust and a Path Forward
Edelman’s Trust Barometer shows a rugged road ahead in terms of trust, but there is a path forward for communicators and leaders with the right focus.
The Wrong Ways to Use Our Powerful Tools
The tools of PR are powerful. Their misuse can cause real damage.
Best Practice Storytelling: Tropes
We were taught to avoid “it was a dark and stormy night” when writing. But using tropes is part of effective storytelling.
Signal Purpose Like a Lighthouse
Research shows that people are attuned to superficial purpose washing. Signal your purpose like a lighthouse.
Endemic Uncertainty: Withstand the Storms With Traction and Resilient5
The world doesn’t seem to be getting more uncertain. It actually is getting more uncertain. You can still thrive.
The Power of Revision
We’re competing with a lot of noise in a world that doesn’t trust anyone and we need to be signal, not noise. We have to include “revision” on our to-do list.
Accenture’s “Life Reimagined” and how communicators should reimagine their world
Accenture research confirms it: people are thinking differently now. How do communicators re-imagine their world?
We Were Promised Flying Cars…the Perils of Prediction
You don’t have to be a hostage to predictions.
Chief Executive Magazine on Looking at Risk Differently
CEO Magazine amplifies the principles identified in the Resilent5 program.
The Ghosn Trap
As we put our CEOs out front more and more, how do we keep from the Ghosn Trap?