The Ugly Side of Values: Handling Corporate Destructors

With the proliferation of social media, reputation issues have become 'the new normal' for most businesses. This is especially true today when mass media are in direct competition with the Facebook and negative social media hype is well on its to take its place among business’ crisis triggers. However, the reputation a company ends up with is merely the consequence of the decisions it makes through the years of operations. To put it simply, a crisis today is a fruit of the poor decisions and behaviors made earlier. But what drives different companies around the world to act improperly in very similar ways? Destructive values do. 

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Five Ways To Deal With Negative Mentions of Your Business

Negative information in media and social networks has long ago ceased to be an ‘occasional catastrophe’ and turned into a variance of the norm for most companies today. No business runs smoothly and mistake-free 100% of the time. It is another matter though, how visible those mistakes are or how soon they will become visible. In reality, every misstep a company makes is public from the get-go because the employees always see it. What happens next and whether negative mentions of the company will find their way to social media depends on those employees’ loyalty and their motivation to make this information public.

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