Must Reads
There is so much to read, so much to know, so many sources to follow. And the volume of news and information just keeps growing exponentially. How to keep up? Even more, how to rediscover the serendipity of learning something new and interesting for its own sake?
Here, for your enjoyment and interest, are the articles Temin and Company considers “must reads.” They are primarily on the topics of reputation and crisis management, the media, leadership and strategy, perception and psychology, self-presentation, science, girls and women, organizational behavior and other articles of interest.
They are listed below with the most recent articles first, and to the side, by category.
We hope you enjoy them and would appreciate your comments. And whenever you have any favorite articles for us to add, please let us know so that we might include them for other readers to enjoy.
There is so much to read, so much to know, so many sources to follow. And the volume of news and information just keeps growing exponentially. How to keep up? Even more, how to rediscover the serendipity of learning something new and interesting for its own sake?
Here, for your enjoyment and interest, are the articles Temin and Company considers “must reads.” They are primarily on the topics of reputation and crisis management, the media, leadership and strategy, perception and psychology, self-presentation, science, girls and women, organizational behavior and other articles of interest.
They are listed below with the most recent articles first, and to the side, by category.
We hope you enjoy them and would appreciate your comments. And whenever you have any favorite articles for us to add, please let us know so that we might include them for other readers to enjoy.
Keeping Sanity in Your Twitter Feed
J.D. Biersdorfer, The New York Times, April 26, 2016
This article’s author explains to those looking to reduce their annoyance levels when scanning their feeds, the difference between muting and blocking someone on Twitter. […read more]
Half of women on boards like quotas but male colleagues say no – survey
Ellen Wulfhorst, Thompson Reuters Foundation News, April 21, 2016
Half of women sitting on corporate boards of directors around the world support quota systems to fix stubborn gender imbalances in the boardroom, but less than 10 percent of their male colleagues agree, said a study released this week by researchers from the Harvard Business School and the WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD) Foundation. […read more]
Crisis of the Week: NFL Goes for Knockout Against New York Times
Ben DiPietro, The Wall Street Journal’s Risk & Compliance Journal, April 4, 2016
Crisis of the Week this week jumps into the fight between the National Football League and the New York Times, looking at how the NFL responded to a story alleging the league under-counted the number of players who had suffered concussions.
The NFL issued a statement calling the story false, and saying the league had spoken with journalists working on the story to explain to them why their premise was incorrect. The league then ran a series of ads refuting the story—even putting those ads on the Times website, sometimes with the ad running inside the story the league was contesting. This week it had attorneys send a letter to the newspaper demanding a retraction, which the newspaper refused to provide.
Using only the comments made by the NFL, the experts evaluated how well the league has done so far in defending itself, and spell out how it should proceed. In addition to breaking down the actual comments, analyze the methods the league took to disseminate its message and explain whether they were effective or not, and why.
Davia Temin, CEO, Temin and Co.: “If the NFL would not go on the offense in its own defense, who would? Its response to the NYT is testosterone-driven, using every play in the reputation defense playbook and originating a few more. It also ups the ante, and may not help them in the long run.
“The NFL’s goal, in the face of such a devastating take down by the Times, had to be not only to refute the allegations point-by-point but to cast doubt on the entire article, its writers and the publication’s motives. It did this semi-successfully in its rebuttal, but went too far, allowing the Times to refute its refutation. Not good to wage all-out combat. But its immediate placement of banner ads touting what it is doing to keep players safe–on the very pages containing the negative story–was brilliant. Clearly the NFL was prepared for the story, and deployed every response possible in traditional and social media; some were on-point, others overblown.
“The real mistake? A truism in my business of crisis management is to never repeat a negative allegation. Instead counter with a positive truth. Every time you repeat a negative, people believe it a little more. So, the more times the NFL said in its statements that it is not affiliated in any way with the tobacco industry, the more the public believes it is. Instead, it should have said: ‘This is a totally untrue allegation: our research and communications are completely independent of any other organization. We have never affiliated with anyone like that, ever.’ And that had better be the truth.”
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What They’re Saying About You When You’re Not In The Room — And What You Can Do To Influence It
Leadership, “Reputation Matters” Forbes, April 4, 2016
When you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu, former Governor of Texas Ann Richards used to say. She may have been referring to politics, but this is equally true in the worlds of business, academia, and nonprofits.
The biggest decisions about your career are often made when you’re not in the room. Whether it’s a decision about if you’ll be hired, promoted, or fired; whether you are put forth by a headhunter to a selection committee and then asked to join a corporate board or become a university trustee; whether you make Managing Director or are passed over; are awarded tenure; or offered the CEO slot, your professional fate is often determined in closed rooms where people are talking about – and evaluating – you, without the benefit of your input. […read more]
Crisis of the Week: NFL Goes for Knockout Against New York Times
Ben DiPietro, The Wall Street Journal’s Risk & Compliance Journal, April 4, 2016
Crisis of the Week jumps into the fight between the National Football League and the New York Times, looking at how the NFL responded to a story alleging the league under-counted the number of players who had suffered concussions.
Using only the comments made by the NFL, the experts evaluated how well the league has done so far in defending itself, and spelled out how it should proceed.
“If the NFL would not go on the offense in its own defense, who would?” says Davia Temin. “Its response to the NYT is testosterone-driven, using every play in the reputation defense playbook and originating a few more. It also ups the ante, and may not help them in the long run.” […read more]
WSJ Crisis of the Week Intro
Each week, The Wall Street Journal features a “Crisis of the Week.” Temin and Company’s CEO Davia Temin is one of the experts who is asked to comment regularly on those crises.
Following is a compilation of her comments since the feature’s inception, starting with the most recent.
The trust question: Can Barclays Bank rebuild the brand?
Barbara Kimmel, The FCPA Blog, March 17, 2016
Jes Staley is the newly appointed American CEO of the beleaguered British Barclays Bank. He recently said, “I do believe that trust is returning to our institution. But we will never rest, we are never done. We have to focus on building that trust every day.”
We asked our Trust Alliance members to weigh in on the steps Barclays new American CEO should take to build trust and ethics.
Davia Temin, a leading reputation and crisis response consultant, said, “Rebuilding trust in financial institutions is a complex algorithm that can test the skills of the best financial engineering ‘rocket scientist.’ Far from simply making a pronouncement of one’s intent (although that can be the first step), the organization needs to first deconstruct all the elements that went into building trust in their particular firm in the first place, analyze all the things that went wrong, and then construct a plan to overcorrect the breaches. Because simply fixing them will not rebuild trust, it will only, maybe, stop the erosion. But this is seriously hard work.” […read more]
10 questions dominating boardroom agendas for 2016
Women Corporate Directors, Directors & Boards, Q1 2016
This article shares the top ten questions directors are asking in their boardrooms so that they can be better prepared for what’s to come. […read more]
6 Tips from a Harvard Linguist to Make You A Better Writer
Eric Barker, Motto, March 9, 2016
Good writing is often looked at as an art and, frankly, that can be intimidating. No need to worry. There are rules — even science — behind writing well. This article’s author talked to Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist and linguist at Harvard, who shares six tips on how to be a better writer. […read more]
New speakers and sessions added RegentAtlantic Wall Street Women Forum® 2016, Shifting Gears on Your Journey
RegentAtlantic Press Release, March 8, 2016
Jane Newton announced the full agenda for the 7th Annual RegentAtlantic Wall Street Women Forum to be held on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 from 2pm-7pm. Headlining the invitation-only event will be luminary keynotes, Suni Harford, Head of Markets, North America, Citigroup, and Ina Drew, Independent Consultant and Retired Chief Investment Officer, JPMorgan Chase.
Davia Temin, President and CEO, Temin and Company, will moderate Leveraging the Power of Your Personal Brand, with panelists Jenifer Schweitzer Brooks, Chief Marketing Officer, Golub Capital, and Erika Irish Brown, Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Bloomberg LP.
The invitation-only Forum was launched in 2010 and today is one of the most sought after events for senior-level women on Wall Street. […read more]