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Unlicensed Practice

Forty job titles, forty forms of counseling, and not one license among them.

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Industry Board Finds All 40 Event Jobs Are Unlicensed Talk Therapy

None of the industry’s 40 principal roles does the work listed in its job posting, the board reports. Every one is counseling, delivered by someone with a lanyard and no malpractice coverage.

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Seating charts, revisions, and the quiet scream of Revision 14.

Seven in 10 Event Designers Say Mischief Belongs in the Strategy

A new survey finds mischief is now a pillar of experiential strategy. The Newport hostess who dined her dogs and seated a monkey at dinner was doing it a century ago, without a deck.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Organizers Launch Campaign for Better CEO Hosts

Hundreds of event professionals say the babysitting is over. Their remedy is the Finishing School for Chief Executives, now accepting students who have never once been asked to wrap.

The Brunch Bread Olympics: A Planner’s Guide to Not Running Out of Bagels

Toast keeps the title. The bagel’s four-hundred-year campaign falls one dozen short.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the industry

New Survey Sets Maximum Size for Hors d'Oeuvres: One Bite, Two Chews Employee’s Agent Studies Holiday Party Invitation, Reports Back on Who to Suck Up To Seven in 10 Event Designers Say Mischief Belongs in the Strategy Event CEO Confesses: Sold to Private Equity, Reporting to a 26-Year-Old Analyst

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