COMMENT: Thought Leader - PR doesn't deserve a place at the boardroom table because it hasn't earned it

Too often these days, I hear senior-level corporate communicators and agency folks lamenting the fact that they don't have a seat at the executive table - that critical decisions regarding new acquisitions, company-wide layoffs, or moves of similar importance are made behind closed doors without input from them on the communications ramifications. Or that when a crisis occurs, they're told by the legal department to keep their mouths shut.