Hard slog put music on the right track
16 Sep 2005 | by Anthony Hilton, anthony.hilton@haynet.com
which should give hope to other businesses that have their own mountains to climb. - Anthony Hilton ...
knock this week (see Anthony Hilton), and Hudson Sandler for City PR. Details of its flotation were ...
which should give hope to other businesses that have their own mountains to climb. - Anthony Hilton ...
Newsdesk Media Group Founded 1997. Privately owned. Chairman Anthony Hilton; CEO Alan Spence ...
Privatised businesses have had two besetting sins down the years.
Every year, MORI polls financial journalists about their attitude to companies and plots the link between familiarity and favourability.
Reputational risk is widely recognised as one of the major threats faced by international businesses. It seems that no matter how careful a group may be, there will always be times when it gets into trouble.
It is a mantra of business that to achieve efficiency you need to simplify, standardise and automate. Complexity and variety require a high quality of employee - someone who has the knowledge and experience to apply judgement and initiative, whereas once things are standardised you can get by with lower-quality...
Although it in no way detracts from the horror of the events, the chances of being caught up in a terrorist attack are so tiny as to be impossible to measure. You are many times more likely to fall under a bus than be blown up on one.
At least last Thursday no one was crass enough to echo the notorious comment of Jo Moore, then press adviser to transport minister Stephen Byers, that 9/11 was a good day to bury bad news. But the terrorist outrage in London did have some interesting PR consequences - albeit they tended to be those...
It is hard to open a newspaper these days without finding some mention of hedge funds, and not just in the business pages. As the number of managers grows, speculation about the lifestyles of the rich and famous people behind the industry is becoming a staple of mainstream news.