Many corporate executives, lawyers, and board of directors suffer from groupthink when confronted with a crisis, restructuring or litigation, which results in a communications meltdown that hurts a company's number one asset its reputation. This failure to understand how to communicate in distressed situations results in lost credibility and trust on a global basis in front of many target audiences: customers, employees, vendors, business partners, media, analysts, lenders, bankers, regulatory agencies, and elected officials. If you are a CEO, CFO, board director, or general counsel, understanding how to communicate in a distressed situation is crucial. This book gives examples of corporations who failed to communicate effectively in a crisis, litigation, or restructuring. By analyzing real-life examples, it offers innovative solutions and communications strategies for decision makers to help avoid groupthink and keep your good reputations intact.

David Silver is the Chief Executive Officer of Silver Public Relations, a public relations and investor relations firm in Los Angeles focusing on crisis, litigation, and restructuring financial public relations for publicly traded companies and private corporations. He has counseled more than 1,000 national and global corporations and its boardroom executives in his 25 years as a financial public relations executive.His proprietary crisis and litigation communications audits are sought out by corporations as he focuses on the cause-and-effect of corporate crises. He has written for a number of newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and the Daily Journal, has been profiled in the Leaders and Success page of Investor's Business Daily, and has been interviewed by CBS national news and other network news media as a crisis and litigation public relations expert.