Taking PRide December 5, 2016 Five PRovoke16 Themes that Forecast the Future of Public Relations – an Indian take I was fortunate to be in Miami for the Holmes report Global PR summit now titled PRovoke, held in end October. Those were two days…
Taking PRide November 28, 2016 Gearing for another year of enrichment and excitement! Three news items have captured everyone’s imagination these past four weeks more than anything else. Each of my columns have delved into these one by…
Taking PRide November 21, 2016 Great Intention, Bad Execution is terrible Public Relations I was awaiting a flight at the Mumbai airport after my monthly teaching assignment to return home to Gurgaon. As I was going through security…
Taking PRide November 14, 2016 Did Public Relations win the night for Trump? Like many others in India I’m still reeling from a shock after witnessing on TV the unfolding of the election results that saw Hillary Clinton…
Taking PRide November 7, 2016 The RepuTATAion of Ratan and the Mistrust of Cyrus! I wrote about the Reputation score of Ratan Tata and Cyrus Mistry one week after the ouster of the latter for Scoop Whoop. A week…
Taking PRide October 31, 2016 The Arrogance of Corporations Here’s a story to end the festive month. In January 2016, like we do every year, we started sending out formal invitations to over two…
Taking PRide October 24, 2016 Are speaker bureaus fair play? I think not. There are four forms of communication: Verbal, non-verbal, visual and written. Verbal communication is of four types: In the professional world – Public-to-many and Private-to-one…
Taking PRide October 17, 2016 Of Pierce Brosnan, Donald Trump, Surgical Strikes and The Ken The last few weeks have witnessed three items hog most of the limelight on mainstream and social media. First it was the news of the surgical…
Taking PRide October 10, 2016 Why attending PRovoke 2016 is such a big deal? When Hurricane Mathew hit the Western Atlantic and the south eastern United States I took a quick trip down memory lane to October 2012 when…
Taking PRide October 3, 2016 The Fulcrum Awards have made a mark and are here to stay It is no easy feat to build an event concept from scratch and see it stand up on its own legs. When the platform in…