So there is this story doing the rounds that BP managed to photoshop some pictures – check out the blog post by Andrew Price on the GOOD blog.
I’ve spoken about the fundamentals of policy before. You can communicate all you like, but if you ain’t got the policy, I’m not convinced.
Having said that, this story about BP and photoshop reminded me of this Greek proverb “Όποιος καεί στο χυλό, φυσάει και το γιαούρτι″ – which loosely (really loosely) translated means that if you’ve burned your tongue with soup you probably blow on yoghurt before you taste it as well.
It would be good to keep this in mind in times of crisis.
At times like that isn’t better to make sure that every single part of the organisation – especially the outwards looking ones – are just like saints? (or nuns. or whatever)
Fine, I get it, it was all a bit of an aesthetic change, nothing significant. Still, when confidence in a company has taken a grave blow, perhaps it’s time to make sure that everything is 100%, crystal clear and transparent quite unlike the Gulf of Mexico.
I’m just saying. Think yoghurt.
