Category Archives: Apologies

Mediation Results in Public Apology

September 18, 2014 – 10:53 am

While former Macomb County commissioner Phil DiMaria was running for a state house seat in 2012, an outfit called Main Street Strategies made robocalls to households in Eastpointe and St. Clair Shores, defaming DiMaria. After he lost the election, DiMaria sued Main Street Strategies and its head, Joseph DiSano. The case went to mediation earlier […]

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Two More Public Apologies

May 19, 2014 – 7:23 pm

A couple more public apologies in the media recently: Donald Sterling, owner of the NBA basketball team the Los Angeles Clippers, made racist comments to a girlfriend last month that became public. His attempt in a CNN interview last week to apologize ended up making things worse—as bad apologies will do. It started out well: […]

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Kwame Kilpatrick Apologizes

October 30, 2013 – 8:55 pm

It’s instructive to analyze public apologies, and we had another chance a couple weeks ago at the sentencing of Kwame Kilpatrick, former Mayor of Detroit, who was found guilty by a federal jury in March of corruption, receiving bribes, failure to report income to the IRS, etc. Mr. Kilpatrick apparently had quite a bit to […]

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Evaluating Another Public Apology

March 30, 2013 – 1:30 pm

Helping people make effective apologies is part of being a mediator and conflict coach, so it’s instructive to evaluate apologies. We had another public example this week from former CIA Director General David Petraeus, who began his speech to a group of veterans Tuesday with these prepared words: “Needless to say, I join you keenly […]

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