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Specialists in marketing through ideas, information, and insight, Temin and Company turns clients’ intellectual capital into true thought leadership.
We also seek to practice what we preach.
Temin and Company’s own thought leadership includes white papers, yearly client letters and podcasts, published articles, a Forbes.com column – Reputation Matters, Huffington Post and American Banker articles, and appearances in other news articles and broadcasts.
Further, Davia Temin is a frequent public speaker and moderator – for clients, their own client events, and their “high potential” training programs. She also presents regularly at CEO conferences, and has developed a range of “Crisis Game” role play simulations to prepare CEOs, Boards, and client companies for real-life crisis situations.
Jeremy Lin’s Brilliant Score In Personal Branding: Trademarking ‘Linsanity’
Reputation Matters, Forbes, July 19, 2012
Jeremy Lin has taken personal branding to the next level – by trademarking his personal brand of mass hysteria – “Linsanity.” And it’s a good thing he did, because as he moves from New York to Houston, Linsanity moves with him. Here is a primer on successful “Personal Branding.” […read more]
Honoring Dads and Daughters — Healthy Relationships Set the Stage for Success
Reputation Matters, Forbes, June 17, 2012
New research shows that men who have daughters are changing the business landscape for women. Regardless of how they felt before they had daughters, once they do, they are leading the way for men and organizations to acknowledge, encourage and reward women’s tremendous advances in the business and work worlds. […read more]
What Boards Must Know About Social Media
Davia Temin, The Corporate Board, May/June 2012
Someone posts a harsh item about your company on Twitter. The comment is picked up and amplified through other online venues, and the company’s stock prices take a fall—all within hours. Today’s world of social media is one where the most obscure person, company or product can overnight become a global trend, or a global villain. Is your board aware of the company’s social media strategy? For that matter, are you as a director up to speed on the new social media world?
In this age of social media, companies of all kinds find themselves at the end of the “command and control” model of leadership. Top-down communications, including those from the C-suite and the boardroom, have lost their primacy.
Today, with blogs, v-logs, Twitter, Facebook, Pintrest and social media of all kinds, everyone has a voice. More to the point, anyone can move markets if his or her voice catches on with the public.
Employees have a voice—including the employee that management fired yesterday. Your “like’rs” have a voice; your dislikers have a voice too (including all of the “I hate xx company” websites, and Facebook-facilitated boycotts). Your competitors have a voice, your shareholders have a voice, and you, as board members, have a voice as well. However, amid the cacophony, it is now exponentially more difficult to make the messages you and your company wish to convey heard.
Especially for the board, knowing how to communicate in social media (and when it is or is not appropriate) is crucial. A board’s workings are historically private and confidential, and a board tends to be heard from only when announcing a new CEO or in a serious corporate crisis.
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The Dalai Lama Told Me So — Words of Wisdom From the 2012 Templeton Prize Winner
Davia Temin, The Huffington Post, May 14, 2012
Davia relates the story of her meeting with the Dalai Lama, 2012 winner of the Templeton Prize. She shares five miracles from that day, and tells us that “…compassion for others and for oneself is the antidote – to despair, to stress, to cruelty, to evil. No matter what your religion, your spirituality, your point of view, that is a singular truth.” […read more]
Little Lies; Big Lies – Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson’s Revisionist History
Reputation Matters, Forbes, May 7, 2012
“When the truth is found to be lies”…sang Grace Slick. But, she was talking about big lies, I think, not so much the tiny lies that almost everyone on the planet surrounds themselves with, as they write and rewrite their own stories. […read more]
Wall Street, Volatility, and Reputation
Davia Temin, Intangible Asset, May 4, 2012
Davia speaks about the importance of “intangible assets” such as trust and loyalty in brand building, specifically related to the financial crises and reputational crisis surrounding financial firms like Goldman Sachs.
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The 1400 Most Powerful Corporate Women in the World
Reputation Matters, Forbes, May 1, 2012
If you added up the market capitalization of all the corporate boards on which the 1400+ members of WomenCorporateDirectors sit, the number would be stunning. It would easily be in the trillions. […read more]
Announcing CEO Illness — Best Practices from Buffett to Jobs
Davia Temin, Forbes, April 18, 2012
“It is probably much easier to announce your cancer diagnosis in a press release when it is only stage 1…” writes Davia Temin on her Forbes.com blog. […read more]
Buffett Announces Cancer Diagnosis With Characteristic Courage and Class
Reputation Matters, Forbes, April 17, 2012
Yet again, Warren Buffett is leading the way for us all. He has acted quickly, thoroughly, and with consummate responsibility to his shareholders and investment partners in announcing his newly diagnosed prostate cancer. […read more]
Flipping Out in Public – From Jet Blue Pilot to Kony 2012 Producer, Stress Takes Its Toll
Davia Temin, Forbes.com, March 29, 2012
Davia examines what the all external media stimulation we receive every day does to our inner selves in her Forbes.com article on stress taking its toll on people in 2012, specifically citing the recent, public meltdowns of the Kony 2012 producer and a JetBlue pilot. […read more]
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