Balancing #Legal versus #PR Priorities in a Corporate #Crisis
Apr 23, 2013 by Mary Beth West
By Mary Beth West, APR In light of a corporate crisis unfolding throughout the past week in the Knoxville market, WBIR-TV, the local NBC affiliate, reached out to me yesterday for a segment on PR versus legal concerns for any company that might be facing a crisis situation where pending litigation is a certainty. WBIR’s Jennifer Meckles interviewed me, while John [...]
Iron Legacy: 3 #Leadership Lessons #Thatcher Embodied
Apr 22, 2013 by Mary Beth West
By Mary Beth West, APR Objectivity Alert: This tribute offers nearly none. I lost all sight of impartiality about the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher long ago, initially during my college years at UT in the early 1990s, when I started gaining a realistic sense of how the world worked and came to know her lasting, [...]