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Jun 16
1m 42s

Best Practices For Issuing Apologies

Edward Segal
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In this episode of the “Crisis Management Minute,” learn about some of the best practices that executives of companies and government agencies should follow when they have to apologize for something that they or their organizations did or said. 
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