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The NFL’s Evolving Player-Suicide Crisis
This weekend’s tragic murder suicide by Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher underscores several linked issues that are increasingly relevant to the National Football League as a whole:
· As the 4thsuicide among NFL players this year, and the 6th in the past two years, it’s clear the NFL has a growing problem with guns and violence on its hands.
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“Spirited” Marketing
Spirit Airlines sent me this email coupon today playing off the controversyinvolving David Petraeus, General John Allen and others.
Wow. You would think that only a few months removed from their firestorm over refusing a refund to a dying veteran, Spirit would hold the line on this type of promotion.
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Will Tesla Motors keep their customers plugged in?
Motor Trend just named the Tesla-S “Car of the Year“…one of the most coveted prizes in the auto industry. What makes this interesting is that Tesla is the first all-electric car to win the award and the first unanimous choice for this yearly honor.
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Survey Says: PR needs PR
One of the old saws about the PR industry is: PR does a poor job of PR for itself as a profession.
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“Debate Prep a drag?”
It’s been several days since the first presidential debate. The polls reflect the “bump”, the candidates continue to duke it out, and the campaigns move on.
We’re not taking sides by saying a majority of Americans believe that Governor Romney was the debate winner.
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Ears Are Everywhere
Loose Lips Sink Ships
The latest dust up in the presidential campaign revolves around a secretly recorded video clip of Mitt Romney during a “private’ campaign appearance. With almost 130 million smartphones in the USA, all the world’s a stage.
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BPI’s Beef
Last week Beef Products, Inc. (BPI), the makers of what the beef industry calls “lean, finely-textured beef,” notoriously known to most of the public as Pink Slime, filed a major anti-defamation lawsuit against ABC News. Read more
On Penwomanship
Four years ago it was Motrin-gate – the argument over whether Johnson & Johnson over-reacted when it pulled a Motrin ad campaign aimed at relieving the back pain suffered by Moms who carry their babies in a sling.
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Getting to Yes
News of the death of Roger Fisher, one of the authors of Getting to Yes, reminds us to thank him and his co-authors William Ury and Bruce Patton for one of the best business/life books I’ve ever read.