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Jim Lukaszewski is an internationally recognized speaker on crisis management, employee communications, ethics, media relations, public affairs, reputation preservation and restoration, and leadership.

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  • Happiness Q & A # 1
    Happiness Question #1; Being married 56 years is a long time. How did you and Barbara do it? Answer: We loved to say “yes!”, a lot. Please send me your Happiness Q & A’s. I will, with your permission, share them with several thousand friends. Send your Q & A’s to Jel@e911.com, subject line: Happiness Q & … Continue reading “Happiness Q & A # 1”
  • Lukaszewski’s Lexicon of Democracy’s Enemies (Joy is the Antidote!)
    By James E. Lukaszewski, ABC, Fellow IABC, APR, Fellow PRSA, BEPS Emeritus Normally, I abhor long lists of anything. In the case of Unconscionable Behavior, we need to be as explicit, detailed, and meaningfully specific as we can, to identify those predator and perpetrator behaviors that need to be recognized, counterattacked, and eradicated from our … Continue reading “Lukaszewski’s Lexicon of Democracy’s Enemies (Joy is the Antidote!)”
  • What Gives With CNN?
    What is a commercial break? Or is that just another, “Breaking News” lie?             This service interruption, whatever it is, needs to be prohibited. It seems frequently that they seem to add up to 30 minutes per broadcast hour. We should not, as viewers and owners of the airwaves, have to tolerate service interruptions of … Continue reading “What Gives With CNN?”
  • 10 Ethical Expectations Of Leadership
    The Roadmap to an Ethical Culture By James E. Lukaszewski – ABC, Fellow IABC, APR, Fellow PRSA, BEPS Emeritus This document was originally developed some 20 years ago following an incredibly serious incident involving a very reputable medical product company and their illegal altering of two key medical products, that were sold to the public … Continue reading “10 Ethical Expectations Of Leadership”
  • Be The One
    To Answer to the Most Important Question Ever Asked About Civility and Decency Steve Harrison, my co-author on our book, The Decency Code – The Leaders Path to Integrity and Trust, and I were promoting our new book on a Pennsylvania book club Zoom conversation when, during the question and answer period, one of the … Continue reading “Be The One”
  • How Leaders Think and Operate
    Part Three:
    Inside the Mind of the Chief Executive During Crisis One of the most challenging events for any Chief Executive is when a crisis happens within or outside an organization. Remember a crisis is a people-stopping, show-stopping, product-stopping, reputation-redefining event that creates victims and often explosive visibility. The operative word in this definition is victims. This … Continue reading “How Leaders Think and Operate
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