Recognizing and Exercising Better Judgment

Communication missteps can be high risk to job, and career security, yet mistakes and reckless errors regularly get made anyway.

Pro football assistant coach Jack Del Rio escaped the firing line and job loss, for now at least, after an ignorant and sensitive initial communication on Twitter, and a follow-up explanation and defense of it when speaking to the media. What can be learned?

This Communication Intelligence article looks at Del Rio's communication about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and comparing the media coverage of it to the summer of protests following the murder of George Floyd at the hands (and knee) of police.