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One of the many nuances I dwell upon in great detail in my corporate workshops on personal branding is something seemingly small and insignificant that most people don’t even give it enough thought – how and when to reply to someone on…
Nimesh Dedhia, a tax professional, tweeted about the new income tax website being down/not working, yesterday at 11:14 am. He tagged the Indian income tax department’s handle and India’s finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman in the tweet. It was a normal, cordial tweet…
The usual starting point in any kind of communication is that there is an audience that is interested in that communication. We use this for every kind of communication – whether a simple tweet or a WhatsApp message, or an advertisement or…
Early June, there was widely covered news about an internal document at Nestle that claimed that “only 37% of Nestle’s food and beverage products had a rating of over 3.5 as per Australia’s health star rating system, in which products are given…
Before I prepare for a corporate personal branding workshop (usually for the CXO/management team, or a select set of employees), I seek inputs from some of the participants so that I take into account the participants’ most pressing concerns or worries or…
A lot has been written about how India eliminated Polio. A related situation we are facing today is with the COVID-19 vaccine. The BIG difference: lack of time to conceive and launch a concerted campaign. Ideally, the conception should have started mid-late…
Porter Novelli is one of the world’s largest PR firms and belongs to the Omnicom Group. In November 2020, they announced, in response to a query from The New Yorker that, “Porter Novelli is committed to regularly assessing evolving issues, the science…