Author: Richard Binhammer

 Business leaders stood up for equality and diversity last week in disbanding their Presidential advisory councils.  That was the easy part for most of them. However, there are a number of public "pressures points" and issues that will continue to challenge businesses' moral voice in America.  Looking ahead, these are important issues for our pluralist, free market society.  These issues and... Read More
Over on the FIR podcast network today, Shel Holtz and Gerard Braud and I had a great conversation about Penn State’s latest crisis (which they’re handling much like the last crisis), a rise in the number of CEOs being fired over ethical lapses (where are the Communicators?), Twitter founder Ev Williams’ assertion that the Internet is broken (and avoiding the trolls and negatives by focusing... Read More
Much has been written about the various crises impacting Uber these days.  Much also has been written about how the crises arise from Uber’s aggressive corporate culture and about the need for more maturity in its approach to business and within the leadership team. In fact, the incidents impacting Uber are actually impacting each and every stakeholder a business requires for... Read More
It was a great conversation on FIR episode 52, where we talked about social media engagement, influencers, Snapchat, pharmaceutical pricing and reputation, Ford's move beyond cars and presidential campaigns use of social media.  The FIR shows are wonderfully moderated by Shel Holtz.  Joining the me on the panel were Zoetica Media CEO Kami Huyse, and Little Bird co-founder and board chairman... Read More
This is a look at the politics of the presidential campaigns that bombard us daily.  It is a look at some of the implications of the current political environment for business leadership and communications. After November, the heated rhetoric of the campaign will come to an end. However, some of these fissures in society will remain and they will continue to impact the climate for... Read More
Social media and human beings share several things in common, such as the connections and sharing each depends upon.  Increasingly we also depend on visual cues and imagery.  In both the increasingly visual Web and in human vision, we experience an onslaught of rapid posting and processing of images to communicate news and information or to convince us to buy something or feel some way... Read More
Had a chance to join Shel Holtz for his FIR podcast.  Shel, Olivier Blanchard, Howard Greenstein and I talked about vying for relevance -- from the Superbowl advertisements (and social media) to Snapchat to the avalanche of information and how that impacts garnering attention (algorithms or influencers/curators?).  We also talked about the challenge and opportunities for CEO/business... Read More
In “Naked Conversations” Shel Israel and Robert Scoble outlined how social media (then blogs) would change the way business “talked with customers.” In “Age of Context”, Israel and Scoble wrote about mobil, sensors and data and how they were changing business and our lives.  This time, in Lethal Generosity, Shel Israel, as always, breaks further ground drawing on “Age of Context”... Read More
Beyond Marketing To So Many Other Aspects of Business: For many of us, the hyperconnected world we are a part of is all about communications and marketing.  However, the fact of the matter is the hyperconnected world reaches way beyond marketing and into virtually every aspect of our business, our lives and our communities. The other day Don Tapscott, CEO of the Tapscott Group and a long... Read More