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Sally Susman, the renowned head of corporate affairs at global biopharmaceutical giant Pfizer, tells the fascinating story of how the multinational managed the massive communications challenge that came with COVID and the race to produce an effective vaccine. Just as crucial as creating the vaccine itself was the task of winning people's hearts and minds, and Susman highlights the principles that enabled her to break through, connect, and help move people forward, not only at Pfizer but over a stellar career.

Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion (1922) argues humans can't fully grasp complex issues. We rely on simplified ideas (stereotypes) and media portrayals ("pseudo-environments") to form opinions.

Molly McPherson is a nationally recognized expert on crisis public relations management in the age of social media. She helps communicators create the right message, at the right time, and deliver it in the right place. From her years of crisis-management experience and mining news stories and tweets, Molly created frameworks to level up your confidence for communicating with ease in crucial crisis moments, so you can own the conversation.

Public Relations for Dummies helps you understand the mechanics of PR and gives you all the tools you need to succeed. This friendly guide gives you practical insights on using the many components of PR to create successful campaigns. You'll learn how to assemble a PR plan, create a budget, develop winning ideas, cultivate media contacts, create pitches, leverage social media and podcasts, secure public speaking engagements, and beyond.

Need a crisis? Pick one. If you’re a PR professional working in a corporation, startup, small business, or nonprofit, you’ll have to deal with a crisis. When. Not if. Are you prepared to deal with the media? Hold a press conference? Prepare speaking points for the CEO? Give media training? Get a handle on your brand and keep the facts front and center?

People are angry with the world—in some cases, rightfully so—and now view companies as they do governments, as targets of their wrath and potential forces for social change. Managing outrage has moved from being an occasional leadership challenge, like handling a PR crisis, to a necessary and critical leadership capability, like strategic thinking or financial acumen.

Crystallizing Public Opinion by Edward Bernays is a seminal work in the field of public relations, originally published in 1923. In this book, Bernays, often regarded as the "father of public relations," explores the techniques and principles behind shaping public perception and influencing mass opinion. Drawing from psychology, sociology, and media studies, he explains how public relations professionals craft messages can strategically to guide public thought and behavior.

They call you a fake because you’re the best. Being called a fake is the last rite of passage on the internet. In the relentless pursuit of excellence, you only know you’ve arrived when you have “haterz”—your most valuable marketers. So Good They Call You a Fake is how you get there. This book teaches step-by-step with no steps skipped how to get the visibility you’ve already earned, become an energy monster who thrives on all kinds of attention, and then monetize that attention to the max.

From Michael LeBoeuf, the bestselling author of Working Smart and the audio programs Working Smarter, Imagineering and The Perfect Business, comes How To Win Customers and Keep Them For Life -- the ultimate guide to building a successful business through customer satisfaction. The success of any...

A must-read for anyone who cares why so many celebs are sporting "bumps", or whether they are really "just like us", this guide - nay, rulebook - lays down the law on what you need to know to play Hollywood in a simple and concise manner.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Truth by Hector Macdonald, read by Simon Ludders. For fans of Nudge, Black Box Thinking and The Art of Thinking Clearly, a fascinating dive into the many ways in which ‘competing truths’ shape our opinions, behaviours and beliefs. True or false? It’s rarely that simple. There is more than one truth about most things. Eating meat is nutritious, but it’s also damaging to the environment. The Internet disseminates knowledge, but it also spreads hatred. As communicators, we select the truths that are most useful to our agenda.

The shift to doing business online hasn’t been easy for any business, but if there’s one industry that’s well-suited for this transition, it’s the network marketing field. For decades, network marketing has helped many people achieve financial freedom and live their dream life, many of whom were working from home.

As a sales engineer these days, are you afraid of software making parts of your job obsolete? If not, you should be. So, how do you avoid becoming obsolete? The Social Sales Engineer shares timeless principles that will shape your sales engineering future on social media and as a trusted advisor in your client's organization. Armed with this audiobook's principles, you will sell more solutions and do it confidently with original ideas, all while building your brand.

Now revised and updated, this "inspired, impactful, and important" book shows how to achieve the ultimate success by rectifying the small problems that can sink a business (Stephen R, Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People). Once every few years a book comes along with an...

With the first edition of Breaking Bad News, Jeff Hahn created an essential guide for surviving the first crucial hours of a reputation crisis. He synthesized thirty years of crisis communication experience into one model, helping brands navigate uncharted territory with tools proven to work whenever unexpected situations, malicious events, or head-scratching screw-ups threaten a reputation.

The rules of marketing and brand building have fundamentally changed. The most successful brands today aren't necessarily the ones with the biggest marketing budgets. A multi-million-dollar ad campaign isn't worth what it once was, and progressive marketers know that and have adopted different...

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 Reputation Rules is a landmark work bringing to light Dr. Diermeier's groundbreaking insights in this critical area. He offers the frameworks, strategies, and processes for changing your company's focus as quickly as the world is changing around you.  

Public relations has always been an essential part of doing business which is probably why you're shelling out big money to an outside PR firm. But the truth is that you don't need them. You already have all the necessary tools in-house to do as good a job as the so-called experts. Landing public relations coverage for yourself and your company is a powerful tool to help elevate your personal brand. PR is easier to generate, leverage, and is more effective than marketing. In other words, public relations is more critical than ever in growing your brand and your business.

Branding is ultimately the way you differentiate your product from the competition. Whether you're selling a celebrity image, automobiles, or a financial service, your goal is to make your brand the most recognizable by the consumer. But there's much more to effective branding than a memorable slogan and ubiquitous advertising; public relations is becoming key to the entire strategy.