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Industry Issues > Bylined Articles > Communications as a Strategic Driver

Communications as a Strategic Driver

How do you reach the top? How do you stay on top? In essence, how do you create competitive advantage? The answer is by changing the way we approach public relations. Discard the old, outmoded view of communications as just operational output. And recognize that today communications must be a strategic driver...
The full article can be found in Community Banker magazine, February, 2008

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