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Do you have confidence in your business confidants? The reason I'm asking is because how much do your trusted advisers really know about the given subjects you choose to share with them and how capable are they to offer sanguine advice? We're doing a lot more one-to-one...
On the basis that a media crisis can wipe out your entire business if not handled properly - and/or if  you've taken CGM's five-question media crisis test, here are some additional thoughts you may wish to consider. The first thing is not to fall into the...
"Ideas are the source of all things" Plato Creative thinking ought to be at the heart of every organisation. Sadly too many business leaders profess to being too busy to generate fresh ideas to pep up the organisations they manage. It can seem a cliché to say that...
With the latest BBC survey revealing the rocketing price of watching matches and the Labour Party's plans to gain supporter representation on the board of clubs, I was told an interesting story that recently happened at a Premier League football club. The story is of four...
Don't you just hate it when someone spits out the phrase 'do gooder' to disparage the actions of altruistic people? So what's the preferable alternative for these folks who pretend to hold some sort of moral high ground - to do bad? What's so clever about...
We've all heard the story about the man who ate an aeroplane. Frenchman Michael Lotito (Mr Monsieur Mangetout - Mr Eats Anything) filed miniscule pieces onto his food each day and washed it down with copious quantities of water. It took him two years to munch...
I recently attended a presentation where a marketing expert revealed their tips on how to win business. Looking around the room, some fairly experienced business people were present so you had to wonder why rudimentary advice such as smiling and shaking someone's hand when you meet...
The thing I love most about delivering media training sessions is when a delegate has a light bulb moment. We had one at a recent CGM Business Media Club meeting on the topic of PR. Thoughts sparked in the head of one of our club members, David...
Last year, one of our clients received a phone call from a journalist who was about to run a story involving the company. Their gut instinct was to say 'no comment' and hope it would blow over. They asked for my advice. No way could they say...
At CGM we have a key phrase to support a viewpoint or a reason to take a specific action and it always gets a healthy mention at our media training events. It is nature abhors a vacuum, a theory devised by Aristotle who observed that nature...
