Keith Hann - nebusiness.co.uk

Comment: Monkey business at AGM

nebusiness.co.uk — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:00:00 GMT

LIKE most things, company annual general meetings are not what they were. However, this is probably a genuine improvement.

Comment: Globalisation widens the gap between Them and Us

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:00:00 GMT

IF you were born in 1954, as I was, it is bad enough to start feeling your age. It is even worse when you begin to identify with people for whom D-Day is still a vivid memory.

Comment: Still waiting for the real axe to fall

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:29:00 GMT

THIS column is the unexpected result of news management. It is also like one of those scenes from the TV news of children playing in the snow, though obviously a lot less fun.

Business News: Little point hoping for retribution

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT

I WORKED in the City for more than 25 years but never received a mega-bonus, and could have been relied upon to invest it unwisely if I had.

Comment: How to save clients from themselves

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT

ONE of the saddest things about PR is the fact that clients hardly ever read newspapers. They just look at the headlines and pictures. And, unfortunately, neither of those is contributed by the journalists we keep cultivating over expense account lunches.

Business News: Dazzling and incisive column

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT

IT’S funny how sticky adjectives can be. As sticky, as Blackadder once put it, as the time that Sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.

Business News: Lottery for mega-rich needed

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

WHAT was the greatest achievement of John Major’s government? Against admittedly feeble competition from Black Wednesday, the Maastricht Treaty and the cones hotline, the answer surely has to be the creation of the National Lottery.

Comment: Recognise hard work and reward success

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MOST of the seriously rich people I know left school at the earliest opportunity, with minimal academic qualifications.

Business News: Keith Hann column

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT

I'd hoped to spin a column out of my attendance at last month's Entrepreneurs Forum in Gateshead.

Business News: Keith Hann column

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:00:00 GMT

I'm going to make a shocking confession: I've been a member of the Conservative Party for 35 years.

Archive: Keith Hann column

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:00:00 GMT

What do hand guns, radiator valves, lawn mowers and fondant fancies have in common?

Archive: Keith Hann column

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Sometimes pr really sticks in my throat. Putting aside the totally obvious (anything involving the Government or Sir Richard Branson), I find I have developed an aversion to spokespeople for wind farm developers.

Archive: Keith Hann column

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I started work (if you can call it work) in financial PR in 1983, the year of Mrs Thatcher's post-Falklands electoral landslide. There followed three years of absolutely frenetic activity helping to bring companies to the stock market.

Archive: Keith Hann column

nebusiness.co.uk — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Are you feeling depressed now the after-effects of Christmas have settled around your waist and the bills have started to pour in?

Archive: Keith Hann

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Some of my best friends are retailers, so it pains me to think of their little faces crumpling in disappointment as they unwrap their December profit and loss accounts. But it's like denying that wailing fat kid his third Whopper. You just know it has to be done.

Archive: Keith Hann column

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Who wants to be a millionaire? Well, me for a start, though I've never had the energy to do much about it.

Archive: Keith Hann column

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:00:00 GMT

Take a look at the chief executive's handbook.

Archive: Keith Hann column

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:00:00 GMT

I had an unusually full and interesting response to my last contribution in this space.

Archive: Keith Hann column

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:00:00 GMT

Business people tend to approach PR consultants for one of two reasons. Either they believe that their company is misunderstood and undervalued by the outside world, and want to raise their profile in the media to address this, or they know that what they do is understood all too well, and want to keep it out of the papers at all costs.

Archive: Keith Hann column

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 02 May 2006 23:00:00 GMT

I spent May Day plotting the downfall of international labour and devising a foolproof scheme to become a multi-millionaire. Ideally one that would command a bit more public support than my last brilliant plan to open a whisky distillery in Coquetdale.