The Santa Barbara News-Press published a new story on November 13, 2008, regarding John Edwards and his re-surfacing into the public eye. “It’s a very good way to just poke your head out a little bit, see what happens, see what public reaction is like,” says Jonathan Bernstein, a California-based …
When CNBC.com’s Albert Bozzo called to ask me my professional opinion about how White House and other “official spokespersons” about the economy were communicating, I drew an analogy with how similar personnel had handled Hurricane Katrina. He seemed to like that angle and this story resulted. I did get one …
The latest issue of Crisis Manager contains two excellent articles by guest authors on how to manage different types of internal crises resulting from bad economic conditions. Remember, the ezine is free, you can sign up at my website’s home page. Jonathan BernsteinPresidentBernstein Crisis Management, Inc.https://www.bernsteincrisismanagement.com
In a past article from my ezine, about “Lessons Learned,” I wrote: There is no such thing as non-communication and there is no such thing as inaction. Saying nothing communicates. Doing nothing is an action with its own results. Today’s results — so far — include a 700 pt drop …
Article by Bruce Horovitz in USA Today provides various and sometimes differing perspectives on how financial firms should communicate with their customers in the current very uncertain environment. Bruce was kind enough to make me one of his sources! Jonathan Bernstein
I just had the privilege of reprinting an article by renowned crisis management consultant and philosopher Ian Mitroff in my Crisis Manager ezine, as distributed by email to my subscribers. It will soon be archived on my website, but I wanted to go ahead and re-post the article here as …
There’s not too much humor in a monster storm like Hurricane Ike, but when Geraldo Rivera tried to follow firefighters along a storm-whipped beach in Galveston…. JB Jonathan BernsteinPresidentBernstein Crisis Management, Inc.
THE FOLLOWING IS A COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT but, like, so what, it’s my blog and I’ll announce if I want to. And maybe some visitors want to pay to hear me share my experience for 90 minutes. Jonathan Bernstein to Speak on Leading through CrisisBusiness leaders from various industries will gather …
A definition of “insanity” popularly attributed to Albert Einstein is, “doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.” So what, then, is “sanity”? It would seem to be “learning from our mistakes.” It only took eight years of the current administration for President Bush — and his …
If you’re not already a subscriber to my ezine, the online version with a guest article by a long-time FEMA contractor has now been posted on my website. Jonathan BernsteinPresidentBernstein Crisis Management, Inc.
Please use this post as your place to comment on any of my past messages and going forward we won’t have this problem. Unfortunately, the Blogger system provides no way to fix the issue retroactively. Jonathan BernsteinPresidentBernstein Crisis Management, Inc.
This here crisis manager is VERY embarrassed to realize that when this blog was originally started comments weren’t enabled and I never caught that until today, when an ezine reader attempted to find somewhere to post a comment! That error has been corrected! Jonathan BernsteinPresidentBernstein Crisis Management, Inc.
This video is directly related to today’s issue of my ezine, “Crisis Manager,” which went out by plain text email and will soon be archived at my website. Jonathan BernsteinPresidentBernstein Crisis Management, Inc.
There’s a “the bigger you are, the harder you fall” phenomena well known to crisis managers. One extension of that is “the better your reputation, the more people are shocked when you really screw up.” Firefox, in launching version 3.0 too soon, just took a major reputation hit. The installation …
SightSpeed today issued a press release via PR Newswire and other distribution channels talking about this blog and my use of SightSpeed during Tropical Storm Fay! It’s getting a lot of pickup! I got very excited! Jonathan BernsteinPresidentBernstein Crisis Management, Inc.
