What To Do When Your Organization Ends Up on the Bad Side of National and Social Media - My Advice to the Editor in Chief of Self Magazine
If you've been on social media the past 24 hours you've seen the infamous page from the April Issue of Self Magazine. Check them out here . You may have even seen the half-hearted, tongue-in-cheek apology from the magazine's Editor-in-Chief. Opinions are flaring and some are siding with the magazine and some are siding with the women pictured in the article and their company Glam Runner. For the record, I am very strongly on the side of the women pictured and very offended by the article, regardless of whether Ms. Allen was a cancer survivor. Here's the point the magazine has missed entirely up to this point - sometimes just starting the race or just finishing the race is a major accomplishment. If people want to put on "armor" to face a challenge like a tutu, face-paint, custom t-shirt, etc. who cares? Not everything is about being the fastest or being first or being stylish. Unless you are magazine for marathon winners, you probably want...