Good Riddance, Amazon
Thu, Feb. 14, 2019
By Kevin McCauley
C’mon, Amazon. Give NYC a break. You weren’t serious about setting up your much ballyhooed second headquarters in Long Island City in the first place. (8 reader comments)
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C’mon, Amazon. Give NYC a break. You weren’t serious about setting up your much ballyhooed second headquarters in Long Island City in the first place. (8 reader comments)
McKinsey & Co. "has done more direct harm to the world in ways that are hard to measure and hard to know, thanks to its intense secrecy," wrote one of former consultants in a devastating commentary. (5 reader comments)
Steve Schmidt, who is advising Howard Schultz's possible presidential run, threw a tantrum and stormed off the set of the "Words Matter" podcast, which he co-founded, because he didn't like a line of questioning. He's going to have to toughen up if Schultz gets to go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump, the master of the putdown. (1 reader comment)
Where's Howard? For a guy considering a run for the president of the US, billionaire and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has gained little traction. It's time for him to smell the coffee. (2 reader comments)
Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders are working on legislation to limit corporate stock buybacks. And right on cue, Wall Street punishes Google parent, Alphabet, for spending for the future rather than buying back stock. (1 reader comment)
Four critical areas young leaders should embrace in order to succeed without compromise.
Billionaires have been venerated figures in western society, particularly in America, but that zeitgeist has shifted. After a senseless federal government shutdown, it’s a different kind of gas-in-the-tank, food-on-the-table politics that has the mega-rich looking over their shoulder. (1 reader comment)
Social media is a powerful tool to build alliances and organize protests but SM is only the beginning of the long arduous process required to achieve political change. (1 reader comment)
Following 2018’s horrific wildfires in the west, drought, extreme rainfall and extensive damage from Hurricanes Florence and Michael in the southeast, America may have reached a tipping point on climate change. (1 reader comment)
As America honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr today, moderate Republicans should read his famous 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail," which resonates in the Age of Trump. (1 reader comment)
The 42K active members of the Coast Guard, which protects Donald Trump when he vacations at his members-only Mar-a-Lago resort, take big financial hit from the president's government shutdown. (1 reader comment)
Donald Trump has walled himself in, and he’s loving it. The Wall makes Trump Trumpy. It is all that he's got in the policy playbook. Meanwhile, Michael Cohen to spill the beans. Shades of John Dean? (5 reader comments)
Last night's TV appearance of President Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer did not serve the American people well. (1 reader comment)
He was impatient, overly aggressive, dramatic, impulsive, tended to sensationalize and frequently made "challengeable statements," wrote lawyer Roy Cohn of his client Senator Joe McCarthy. The description sure sounds like another of Cohn's clients. (2 reader comments)
In a lousy PR move, Apple CEO Tim Cook blames China and not the lack of breakthrough products for his company's lousy financial outlook. (1 reader comment)
Donald Trump has worn out his welcome after a solid first year of accomplishments that would make any traditional Republican proud and a sketchy second year. He's getting walled in by The Wall that 56 percent of Americans don't want. (3 reader comments)
Jack O'Dwyer relied on the business lunch to use the power of PR to drive some sense into the minds of his misguided business opponents. He recruited me to ride shotgun on some of the most wild and wooly sessions. (3 reader comments)
Anyone who knew Jack O’Dwyer has a story to tell. The last 13 years have given me a lifetime of them. (7 reader comments)
“Justice” is Merriam-Webster's 2018 word of the year, according to the number of searches made on its website. It was driven to the top by special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling, Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing and searches by those worried about economic, social and racial justice during the rule of Donald Trump. (4 reader comments)
The Committee to Protect Journalists finds a sharp increase in the number of reporters throughout the world jailed on charges of reporting 'fake news." Despots give a hearty round of applause to president Trump. (13 reader comments)
Did you ever think that you would see the day on which the United States, the former proud leader of the free world, was ridiculed, mocked and laughed at during an open session of an international conference? Meanwhile, 44 retired Senators urge Senate to stand tall in the event of a constitutional crisis. Welcome to Donald Trump's America. (2 reader comments)
While president Trump ridicules American reporters and declares the media the "enemy of the people," China is spending millions to fortify its media and overseas propaganda institutions in a bid to promote its image in the US and throughout the world. (9 reader comments)
You’ve got to hand it to S4 Capital chief Martin Sorrell: the guy is a PR genius as the media spill plenty of ink in reporting his deal to acquire an obscure ad tech firm. (2 reader comments)
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