Insights: crisis communication
Who sets the moral compass? Leadership lessons from the Bell Pottinger case
On seeing the Bell Pottinger and Oakbay Capital story unravel, I imagine the temptation of most PR agencies is to argue that’s not how other PR agencies work, and to ask that we are not judged by the behaviour of one...
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What can we learn from the United Airlines debacle?
The internet has been abuzz this week with the news of United Airline’s reaction to a video showing a man being violently dragged off an overbooked aeroplane. But what has damaged their reputation almost as much as the initial...
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Beyond B Corp: Breaking up with Barclays
Last year we became a certified B Corp, and to do so we had...
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Three takeaways from the IPCC’s ‘final warning’ report
This week has seen the release of the latest IPCC report assessing the climate...
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Why we’ve introduced a 4.5 day working week
As the rulebook of the working week gets rewritten, at Stand we continue to...
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Stand shifts as we move into our second decade
I founded Stand with one simple (but typically ambitious) belief: that good comms can...
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Veganuary’s Top Tips: An Expert’s Guide
I first took part in Veganuary in 2018, thinking I probably wouldn’t even last...
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The cow in the room of climate action
When I attended COP26 last year, I was not in the least bit surprised...
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