Fourth in a Series on Reputation Management and Risk Communications — “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make all of them yourself.” – Sam Levenson At 7:02 am on December 7th, 1941, Privates Joseph Lockard and George Elliott, using a new technology known as radar, saw what looked like a formation of…

Third in a Series on Reputation Management and Risk Communications — “Generals are always prepared to fight the last war.” – Winston Churchill The worst decisions I have ever made are those that try to correct the past. We overcompensate or second guess or simply take the road “less traveled” and think, as Robert Frost so beautifully wrote, that it will…

Second in a Series on Reputation Management and Risk Communications — “If you don’t stick to your values when they’re being tested, they’re not values — they’re hobbies.” – Jon Stewart The Corporate Social Compact If we have learned anything over the past six years, and certainly after January 6th and the midterm elections, it is that the Social Compact is…

First in a Series on Reputation Management and Risk Communications — “But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. …

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill Authors Note: We have managed dozens of discrimination matters for plaintiffs (including one of the largest arbitration awards in the history of DEI) and defendants, and written many dozens of articles…

“Ah death, a change of clothes.” –The 14th Dalai Lama The endless fields of amber grain. Valhalla so far in the distance it is, we are sure, just shy of eternity. Mortality, we have decided, is not for us. “Heaven can wait.” I suppose old age and death are things…

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. How do we find the strength to keep going? I know from so many recent conversations that I am not the only one to have those days when the fatigue will not…

“A country that tolerates evil means- evil manners, standards of ethics-for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.” ― Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here I am a child of “The Great Society,” President Lyndon Johnson’s call to use the country’s post–World War…

“Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” – Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo We are an over-polled society, a fact which subsequently influences politicians to prefer to follow rather than lead. Yet, how is it possible that up until U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft in Dobbs v…