I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Sir Terry Leahy last week at The University of Manchester Business School, to discuss his lessons on management and potential drivers for growth for businesses in the recession, based on his vast and successful experiences at Tesco. Being a good scouser and Evertonian, Sir Terry has a [...]
Communicators are paid good money to ‘get the message across’, yet many seem incapable of doing so clearly and simply. In this guest blog John Rentoul, prominent political journalist and author of the Banned List, a manifesto against jargon and cliche, explains how his book can help you communicate better… The New York Times obituary [...]
Havas Worldwide’s annual Valentine’s Day PR survey, “Love & Lust”, conducted among 2,000 adults in the US and UK, shows that 20thcentury science fiction scenarios of computer sex and love are becoming real in the 21st century for the rising generation of Millennials, who are immersed in computer games and online socialising Almost one-third (32 percent) [...]
David Cameron’s description of the coalition government as ‘Ronseal, it does exactly what it says on the tin’ this week is not the first time he’s referred to the brand in a public speech. Back in 2004 he said that people were crying out for “Ronseal politics – they want it to do what [...]
There are only a couple of us in the Havas PR UK Manchester office who are old enough to remember the 1980s, hence a few bemused faces during our weekly staff meeting today when I compared The Sun’s attitude to Argentina’s claim of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands with the behaviour of the same newspaper [...]
