Listen and diagnose
Two weeks, mostly listening — your leadership, your customers, and where it helps, your critics. What you claim, what you can prove, and the distance between them. Most of what matters surfaces early.
Forty years of these problems produced a way of working through them. It’s the same on both sides of the business.
Two weeks, mostly listening — your leadership, your customers, and where it helps, your critics. What you claim, what you can prove, and the distance between them. Most of what matters surfaces early.
One page your CEO, your head of sales, and your board would each recognize as accurate. If the business can't support the claim, we say so here, before anyone writes a line.
The program, with the measures agreed before it starts. Media, campaigns, counsel, operating plans — whatever the position requires. The quarterly question settled in advance.
Every company is too close to its own story to see which part is the actual difference. Complicated businesses pay double for it — hard to explain, so explained badly, and the attention goes to the competitor with the simpler story. Most of what we surface was already known by somebody inside who couldn’t get heard.
Positioning that ignores the business model is decoration. When the problem turns out to be the strategy, the team, or the numbers, that’s the work — not a referral to somebody else.
AI is rewriting how audiences find information, what a search result is worth, and what lands in a journalist’s inbox. Peter lectures on it at four universities and publishes on it regularly, which means the recommendations reflect where this is going rather than where it was.
Anticipating what’s coming, sharpening the decision, and saying the thing nobody else in the meeting will. Peter has made these calls with his own capital at risk.
Peter Prodromou sold his first story to the Associated Press for two hundred dollars. Newsrooms, then radio. Supreme Court rulings and the wars of the 1980s. Three decades in technology through the internet boom. A communications group built, acquired across four continents, and run as CEO. Counsel to governments on economic development and policy. He has stood at every point in the chain that used to carry the truth.
A Semblance of Truth is about how we lost the shared standards that told people what was reliable—and what it takes to build them again. From the newsroom floor to the platforms to whatever comes next.
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