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I am adamantly of the mind that well-behaved PR people are more Kaiser Sauze than attention whore (and poof! He’s gone…)
Some kind words that were said about me and others at the link above, and I am very grateful. But I am still keen on getting feedback on the following thesis, which I proposed in the comments.
Is the problem that some of the people best suited for PR (and marketing generally) do not typically self-select for PR (and marketing generally)?
I look at myself and Louis as examples — we are nerds who somehow fooled people into letting us do marketing;)
I keep a Google doc that is what I call “the Bo Jackson list” – i.e. people who can play football AND baseball. And when we hire new people, we’re not looking to the typical crop of candidates for new talent.
Agree/disagree?
Update: to be clear, if you DID self-select for marketing, I am not saying that I think you are not right for the job, or that I don’t want to hire you or work with you! What I’m curious about is whether, as an industry, we can do a better job of purposely introducing a diversity of skill sets and perspectives (and accordingly, whether some of PR’s ills can be attributed to, broadly taken, groupthink).
