, Author at Temin and Company

Crisis of the Week: Signet Confronts Diamond Debacle

Ben DiPietro, The Wall Street Journal’s Risk & Compliance Journal, June 13, 2016 The crisis this week involves Signet Jewelers, which is battling allegations employees substituted premium diamonds with cheaper, man-made substitutes. Using only the...

Crisis of the Week: Signet Confronts Diamond Debacle

by | | Crisis Management, Crisis of the Week, In the News, Reputation Management

Ben DiPietro, The Wall Street Journal’s Risk & Compliance Journal, June 13, 2016 The crisis this week involves Signet Jewelers, which is battling allegations employees substituted premium diamonds with cheaper, man-made substitutes. The company’s stock...

Period. Full Stop. Point. Whatever It’s Called, It’s Going Out of Style

by | | Uncategorized

Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times, June 9, 2016 One of the oldest forms of punctuation may be dying The period — the full-stop signal we all learn as children, whose use stretches back at least to the Middle Ages — is gradually being felled in the barrage of...

FOMO: This Is The Best Way To Overcome Fear Of Missing Out

by | | Uncategorized

Eric Barker, Barking Up The Wrong Tree, June 5, 2016 You hear about FOMO a lot these days. In fact, the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013. What does it really mean? A recent study on the subject defined it as: …”the uneasy...

Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice.

by | | Uncategorized

Adam Grant, The New York Times, June 4, 2016 We are in the Age of Authenticity, where “be yourself” is the defining advice in life, love and career. Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the...