by snarly | Jun 5, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies, Media Apologies
Dov Seidman haz a sad. Surely you remember Dov. When the NYT announced it was launching a blog called Apology Watch, to be spearheaded by biz macher Aaron Andrew Sorkin, Mr. Seidman (an ethical image consultant to businesses) was the expert contributor. We promptly...
by snarly | Jun 2, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies, Funny-on-Purpose Apologies
Longtime tech blogger Anil Dash has an amusing roundup of prototypical lousy technology biz apologies, called “Every Bad Apology Your Tech Company Needs” over at Medium. My own fave: “As acting CEO, I offer an apology to our community of users and...
by snarly | May 29, 2014 | Bropology, Sports Apologies
On Wednesday afternoon, 18-year-old American tennis phenom Taylor Townsend unexpectedly defeated 24-year-old French person Alize Cornet, reaching the third round of the French Open. “After she won she smiled wide and danced in the rain,” reported the Wall...
by snarly | May 23, 2014 | Sports Apologies
I’m thinking of doing a WikiHow. How Not to Give A Press Conference Apologizing for Beating the Crap Out of Your Wife in a Hotel Elevator and Dragging her Unconscious Body Out of It As Captured by Security Footage: 1. First, don’t start off by saying:...
by snarly | May 14, 2014 | Academic apologies, Apology Essentials, Corporate Apologies, Personal Apologies
Our pal Michael Orbach pointed us (via boing boing) toward Professor Ben Ho’s look at the economic value of apologies. Here’s what Ho, an assistant professor of economics at Vassar, says about the existing research. If you do it right, apology is good for...
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