by Emma King (@EmmainSA) I don’t think bullying is uncommon, and I believe it crosses the spectrum — of all sexes, all ages, and all levels within businesses. So how should you deal with being bullied?
Tag archives: The Dissident Spin Doctor
Dissident Spin Doctor: Navigating the industry as a woman
by Emma King (@EmmainSA) Personally, I have never felt as if I’ve have been held back in my career because of being a woman. But, bar PR agencies (which have a higher than average women/men ratio, for reasons we won’t go into here), we would be hard-pressed to name more than a handful of MDs, CEOs or ECDs of major local creative companies who are women. Why is that?
Dissident Spin Doctor: Dear brands, (please stop) the dumb things you do
by Emma King (@EmmainSA) It’s interesting to look at what our partners — the brands we work with — should not do, or should stop doing. Here are some of the things that bug me the most.
The Dissident Spin Doctor: Business mistakes that hold us back from being great
by Emma King (@EmmainSA) One of the key things Jim Collin discovered is that “…great companies did not focus principally on what to do to become great; they focused equally on what not to do and what to stop doing”. So what are we, as PR and communications agencies, doing that perhaps we shouldn’t?
The Dissident Spin Doctor: 10 things I learnt in 2013
by Emma King (@EmmainSA) This time of the year is rife with all the predications of what the ‘trends’ will be this year. But just as helpful is to be reflective and to look back at what’s happened over the past year and to think about what has been learned.
The Dissident Spin Doctor: Collaborative economy not ‘marketing bollocks’
by Emma King (@EmmainSA) ‘Collaborative economy’, as bollocksy as it sounds, is interesting and also very relevant to the modern marketplace.