Starting a new job is tough. It's humbling at the start, but you just weather the learning curve and keep going. I am maneuvering through that process having just started as PRWeek's senior editor.

Keeping all things in perspective helps, so when I read that BP, lambasted for its communications during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, just named Peter Henshaw its communications director, I thought, "That man really has his work ahead of him."

Henshaw, most recently head ...