by Helio Fred Garcia To my Students: A Fourth of July teachable moment on framing — starting with why — and career management, on the 240th birthday of the United States of America. On June 7, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, voted to separate from England; our own Brexit. It passed a […]
Logos Institute for Crisis Management and Executive Leadership Research Fellow Iris Wenting Xue led students at New York University’s MS in Public Relations and Corporate Communication program through a discussion of effective apologies. Ms. Xue spoke on April 30, 2016 in an advanced elective on crisis communication taught by Logos Institute executive director Helio Fred Garcia.
Introduction by Helio Fred Garcia: This is my fifth in a series of guest blogs featuring my recently-graduated capstone (thesis) advisees in New York University’s Master’s in Public Relations and Corporate Communication. See my earlier posts: On the Power of Why in Business by Jocelyn Jiaxin Cao; On Wall Street, Reputation, and Recovery by […]
I have had the privilege of teaching Marines for 25 years. Of all the teaching I do, it’s one of my favorite things. And of all whom I teach, it is the Marines from whom I have learned the most. And so have my civilian students and clients. I am a better corporate consultant and leadership coach because of what I have learned from teaching Marines. And the more I teach the more I learn.
This week the Donald Trump phenomenon seemed to reach a tipping point, with Republican leaders scrambling to prevent his continued wins in the primaries, and with debate discourse hitting new lows. But the rise of Donald Trump as the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, and all the bi-partisan angst it is creating, is not a cause but rather a consequence.
Introduction by Helio Fred Garcia: This is my fourth in a series of guest blogs featuring my recently-graduated capstone (thesis) advisees in New York University’s Master’s in Public Relations and Corporate Communication. (See my earlier posts, On Wall Street, Reputation, and Recovery: Guest Blog by Julia Sahin here; On Changing Narratives in Oil Conflict Regions: […]
Each month, as part of “The Business Case for Public Relations,” the Public Relations Society of America asks an industry leader to reflect on his or her career and make a “business case” for public relations. In January, 2016, they profiled Logos president Helio Fred Garcia.
Two crises in Korea have elevated public and policy-maker appreciation of the need to have structures and capabilities in place to prepare, respond to, and recover from crises that affect public safety and security. Chosun Issue Forum brought together crisis experts and Korean leaders.
Ten years ago today Hurricane Katrina made landfall. The rest, as they say, is history. On the tenth anniversary of the flood, we have the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of that bungled response and to re-commit to the discipline of effective crisis response.
I monitored the hurricane and flood and then deployed to New Orleans in the second week as part of a corporate response to the disaster. I saw first hand the consequence of the government’s ineffective handling of the crisis.
Logos President Helio Fred Garcia wrote a personal account of his time as a page in the US House of Representatives on the US Capitol Page Alumni Association website. For more than 180 years, messengers known as Pages served the United States House of Representatives. Pages were high school juniors and had to be at […]