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While we’re accustomed to the mergers and acquisitions of companies, we need to adapt to the challenges that come with spinoffs. Mergers and acquisitions have received headlines in recent years, but a new development might be just as significant. Spino …

May

Politics in ‘Real Time’

Sometimes the best candidate is the best marketer. Only one presidential candidate was able to deliver slogans that stuck. A key moment in last year’s presidential campaign was Hillary Clinton’s July 28 speech at the Democratic National Convention in P …

May

How Not to Waste Time

Did you know that the most effective managers get as much productive work from their teams by 10 a.m. Thursday as the rest get done all week? That’s one nugget among many findings from a survey of more than 300 executives worldwide conducted by Bain Ca …

May

Video Files: CSR Insights

Are you integrating CSR and sustainability initiatives with your government relations practice? The Council’s Rikki Amos offers tips. Want More Information on This Topic? Contact Rikki Amos, director, U.S. public affairs practice, Public Affairs Counci …

May

A Visit with Jean Cantrell

Jean Cantrell Head, State & Local Government Relations Philips Lighting Public affairs isn’t exactly your first career, is it? Not really. I spent 10 years in New York City, in opera and musical theater. I toured with John Davidson in a production …

May

Secret Weapon in Communications Unveiled

Use All Five, a design firm, is deploying a secret weapon in its effort to save funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. It’s using something called “the fax.” Don’t laugh. Introduced in 1964 and widely used in the 1980s and 1990s, fax machines …

May

How Charitable Giving Is Like a Snowball Fight

You have to love serious academics whose studies emerge from the humble everyday assumptions that “snowballs, rubber balls, books or shoes” are likely to hurt more when thrown from close range than from a distance. Of course they do, which is why we ap …

May

Will Maine Imprison Lobbyists Who ‘Lie’?

A painfully well-meaning member of the Maine Legislature wants to make it a crime for lobbyists to lie — to legislators, that is. A bill introduced by Heather Sirocki, a Republican from Scarborough, says nothing about whether lobbyists can lie to peopl …

April

Does the Office Move Presidents to the Middle?

The office of the president has a tendency to moderate the views and actions of its occupant, right? That’s the conventional wisdom, says a University of Central Florida political scientist who has conducted research to test whether this belief is corr …

April

How Small Lobby Groups Defeat Larger Rivals

How can small “special-interest groups” prevail over larger ones, as often seems to be the case? An economics professor at Washington University with a specialty in game theory offers an economic model useful in analyzing situations in which two groups …

April

High-Volume Messaging ‘No Longer Works’

Note to organizers of grassroots campaigns: The greater the volume of emails (or comparable communications), the less likely legislators who receive them will take them seriously. That’s an oversimplification, but a political scientist from the Univers …

April

More Disruptors Impacting Public Affairs

And, more important, what we can do about them (Part 2 of 2 in our Disruptors series) Sheree Anne Kelly Senior Vice President, Public Affairs Council In the first part of our series on public affairs disruptors, we examined how Disruptor #1, millennial …

April

Video Files: 3 Emerging Public Affairs Trends

The Council’s Doug Pinkham analyzes the outside game of politics, the evolution of crisis response and recovery and insights for handling both political opportunity and risk. Want More Information on This Topic? Contact Doug Pinkham, president, Public …

April

Stanford’s ‘Quietly Revolutionary’ Executive Program

‘Strategy Beyond Markets’ Enters Second Year Every year or so, Laura Naramore seizes an opportunity to supplement her practical education in public affairs with an academic program. “I need to stay current in advanced strategic thinking,” says Naramore …

April

What You Don’t Know May Surprise You

In The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone, Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach examine some of the pressing social problems of our time — including polarization and the difficulties it raises for hammering out workable public policies. More tha …

April

A Visit with Greg Crist

Greg Crist Executive Vice President, Public Affairs Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) In January, you moved from the American Health Care Association to your present position. Why the switch? The American Health Care Association is a gr …

March

With Sadness, Council Loses Two Good Friends

Christopher N. McGowen Eight years ago, Chris McGowen, then director of government affairs for Novo Nordisk, told Impact his favorite movie: “The Bad News Bears.” “I like the fact that the kids lose a lot of their games, and then they get better and st …

March

Vision, Values, Mission, Principles, Purpose? How to Keep Track

If your company doesn’t have a “mission statement,” don’t fret. A meeting is probably going on right now (a corporate retreat, maybe) where people are working on it. No doubt, there’s a consultant at the meeting, too, guiding your colleagues through t …

March

A Visit with . . .

Wade Balkonis Government Relations Manager H&R Block We’re well into tax season. Does that affect your work for H&R Block? In a way, it does. Even though our public affairs staff isn’t involved in tax preparation itself, our work changes somewh …

March

Top Disruptors Impacting Public Affairs

In this first of a two-part series, we look at how to engage the largest generation in history, and how to rebuild trust in big institutions.

March

Amy Walter’s Look Ahead

The national editor of The Cook Political Report offers insights on a “chaos” presidency, the mid-term elections and more.

March

Innovative PACs Break New Ground

PAC Innovation Award winners shine bright by leveraging technology to reach, educate and excite their audiences.

March

Inside D.C.’s ‘House of Truth’

Author Brad Snyder tells how a group house in D.C. changed the course of politics a century ago.

March

Video Files: Social Issues and PACs

The Council’s Doug Pinkham and Hannah Wesolowski discuss managing stakeholders’ expectations of candidates’ stances on “social” issues.

February

New Approaches to Philanthropy

Companies look to leverage their expertise when making a corporate responsibility impact.

February

What Is Incivility Costing You?

There’s competitive advantage to being civil. So why not just be nice? Author Christine Porath examines the psychology of incivility.

February

2017 Innovation Award Winners

Blending traditional and new engagement strategies.

February

True Enough?

Farhad Manjoo on Trump, transparency and fact-checking fake news.

February

Video Files: Political Disruptors

In an upredictable and unstable world, be on the lookout for these three political disruptors.

February

A Visit with . . .

Allison Schumacher Director, Environmental Policy & Sustainability Consumer Technology Association (CTA) The term “sustainability” has become so ubiquitous that some observers think it has lost some power – it’s in danger of being kind of like “nat …

February

Why People Are Afraid of Free Trade

In what the authors call “the first effort to assess whether and why hard times” affect Americans’ attitudes toward international trade, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania find that a significant component of anti-trade sentiment is not, s …

February

Take Flight for Innovation

If you want a more creative corporate culture, hire a CEO whose hobby is flying small aircraft. That’s a lighthearted takeaway from a serious academic study conducted by scholars from McGill University and the University of Arizona and published in the …

January

Will Trump Really ‘Drain the Swamp’?

Will President Donald Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” happen or will history and the need for policy expertise clog the drain?

January

Surviving in a ‘Fake News’ World

Public affairs professionals struggle to work in a “post-truth” era where trust in business, the government and the media continues to decline.

January

Parties Struggle with ‘Populist’ Uprising

The 2016 presidential election signaled, by almost all accounts, a “populist” uprising. But what, exactly, does populism mean? Author John B. Judis explains.

January

Video Files: Three Mistakes to Avoid

Experiencing challenges with your public affairs team? Any of these three common mistakes may be the cause. The Council’s Sheree Anne Kelly breaks it all down.

January

Data Crunch: PAC and Grassroots Salary Surveys …

Who earns more, a grassroots or PAC professional? What’s the breakdown of activities for each and what percentage have supervisory roles?

January

A Visit with . . .

Tom DiGangi, Vice President, Government and Regulatory Affairs, The Gordian Group

January

‘Linguistic Incoherence’ Turns People Off

People who work in any given industry might like to talk in a secret shorthand — what’s called jargon — but such language just turns off the public.

January

Consumers, Not Companies, Have the Power

Who has the most power to improve our lives? According to the 2017 Ford Trend Report, which surveyed more than 8,000 people in the U.S., U.K., China, Brazil, India, Spain, Germany and Canada, 47 percent of respondents said “individual consumers.”

January

‘Moderates’ See a Complex World

Partisans on the left as well as the right see social, economic and political questions as less complicated than do more moderate citizens. That’s the finding of a team of scholars from Germany and the Netherlands that tested earlier theories about how …

January

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