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The Leadership of Trust
Trust trips off the tongues of most political and business leaders with worrying ease. It is a word always easy to say but a relationship more difficult to earn. And trust simply spoken is trust rarely earned. A seminal HBR blog post yesterday by John Kotter (http://tinyurl.com/aggogfz) drew the important distinction between management and leadership...
The Four Heels of Achilles (and how to avoid the Dinosaur Trap)
Despite my long-held belief in the transformative power of communications for collective and societal good, these are worrying times for the profession of PR. While the evolved form of Public Relations, Public Engagement, remains central to the restoration of trust and the advancement of the true sustainability agenda, there is a real danger that this...
The Age of Engagement (Part Three)
Why PR firms will need to re-tool to take on the Ad guys It might yet become the agency equivalent of the Battle of Endor. A struggle is now underway for the shape and the soul of the communications firm of the future. In the third of three blog posts on the Age of Engagement,...
Age of Engagement
Just as literature is punctuated by visions of utopia and dystopia, so the history of social progress is littered with the effluent of the productive tensions between conflicting and emerging ideologies. Hegel famously explored contradictions and called synthesis from two polarities, while the Social Contract – which finds equilibrium between the state and the individual...
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Citizen Employees Rising Through The Hourglass
Bosses watch out: the Arab Spring and the Shareholder Spring may yet manifest themselves in the workplace, too. If 2006 was Time Magazine’s ‘Year of Me’, so 2012 could well turn out to be the Year of We. We, the people, have called for regime change from the boardrooms of Britain to the streets of...
Employee Activists: Occupy Different Tents.
Whether capitalism is in crisis or in metamorphosis is a moot point. What is certain is that we cannot go on like this; that the ‘old’ normal is non-sustainable; and the ‘new normal’ will be citizen-led. This is of course a recurring theme for both the authors and followers of Citizen Renaissance: traditional hierarchies continue...
Not quite PR but still worth the fight
So the people have spoken. They have told us that ‘none of the above’ had a strong enough narrative to deserve sole power. Have we lost the once in an era chance for real change and transition to grown-up co-operative democracy? The Tories shifted their position on PR considerably. But is it enough? It’s AV...
Cameron@TED
Not to be outdone by the competition, David Cameron has lost his TED-talk virginity (Brown spoke last year). In a speech on his Big Idea of ‘people power’ Cameron seemed to be quoting from Citizen Renaissance saying “It is a post-bureaucratic age and the citizen/consumer is in charge”. Developing the theme of his Big Idea,...
The Decade of the Citizen
As we remain firmly rooted in our Western economic bath-tub and emerge from the dusts of Copenhagen, it seems ever clearer that Citizens are the missing link for 2010. The Citizen Renaissance message for 2010 is this: Be the change. Aspire not to have more but be more. Do more. Together. Politics continue to fail...
