Posts Tagged ‘tips for young pr professionals’

Have you ever noticed that so many people walk through life completely obvlivious to their own faults? They are unable to accept that there might be a better, newer, more effective way to do something. I find those people often justify their actions with “well, this is how things have always been done.” I really find nothing more annoying. If we kept doing things the way they had always been done, we would be riding horses, sending snail mail and reading our evening papers by candle light rather than checking out the news via Twitter on a smart phone.

For the most part we are all resistant to change, to critique, to any sort of perceived criticism. Why is that? Why is it that the idea that there might be a better way is often perceived as an insult to the way things are being done now? Change is happening all around us, everywhere you look there are small subtle changes everyday. It seems to me that the way things are currently being done might have been perfect for the time when the idea was concepted. But with the passing of time, it’s time to move forward to grow.

While this is a common element of corporate America, I often find myself seeing similar examples amongst the young, emerging public relations professionals. Today I was talking with @HuddyBud at work. Read the rest of this entry »