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Terminal disaster: How to botch a megabuck breakthrough on a global scale

Posted in Our Opinions on April 2nd, 2008 | Tags: , , ,

All the money in the world couldn’t have purchased the colossal level of media exposure — most it negative — that British Airways achieved for its vaunted Terminal 5.

This is an abject lesson in the mis-management of public expectations; a kind of PR in reverse.

The key word is hubris, displayed on a scale not seen since recent/former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer bragged to someone ’I am a fXXXing steamroller’ (who did it with his socks on.)

Check it out at  http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/travelers_check/archives/2008/03/heathrow_so_muc.html

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