To successfully defend against a WikiLeaks-style scandal, companies must keep offensive and defensive strategies in mind.

During a corporate crisis, management must consider employees’ instinctive reactions to a sense of danger.

Heartland Payment Systems’ publicly informative response to what is considered the largest data breach in history is a prime example of how open crisis communication can save a company.

Richard S. Levick and Peter Gleason analyze the top five most important questions boards need to be asking CEOs.

Directors need to be prepared to take charge of their company’s operations in case of a scandal similar to the ones that rocked the management structure of Tenet Healthcare, Computer Associates and HealthSouth.

Richard S. Levick, president and CEO of Levick Strategic Communications, explains the benefits of having a responsible tone at the top regarding compensation.

If you want to see really strong egos, look for leaders who can let real or perceived insults slide while maintaining absolute focus on what matters. History offers no better example than Abraham Lincoln.

While the world leaps forward towards the age of fully mobile communications, the U.S. broadband system plods along on a patchwork quilt of separate systems cobbled together from city to city and region to region.

Where are today’s John Pierpont Morgans, willing to risk it all for the rewards of a stronger economy?

History lesson: At a time when George C. Marshall’s reputation as a soldier and statesman was already secure, he willingly put everything on the line to help ensure passage of the plan in Congress that bears his name and to oversee its implementation.

That even in today’s world certain reputations somehow survive undiminished suggests that something in their very DNA assures long-term immunity and an abiding, almost mystical, connection to an otherwise disillusioned populace.

There are three reasons why companies fail to communicate effectively in a crisis. First is fear. The instinct to flee incipient or existing crises is as natural as it is universal. It allows bad situations to unfold on their own and become even worse. For some, it means the deathly quiet of “no comment” at [...]