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Not every speech can be the Gettysburg Address. But every speech does have the potential to be a rhetorical train wreck like this going-viral commencement speech by Republican Senator Ben Sasse. Investigators …
How are you? We asked speechwriters and executive communication professionals, and they told us—clearly and in some cases colorfully. You should download and read the whole report, but here’s the gist: In-house …
It is now almost two months since the people of this country began to put up with restrictions on their freedom – your freedom – of a kind that we …
I can’t even keep track of all the online commencement speech festivals taking place this week for college grads and next month for high schoolers. But I do know that …
Review of: Transatlantic Rhetoric – Speeches from the American Revolution to the Suffragettes by Tom Wright For more than 10 years, Tom Wright of the University of Sussex has concentrated his scholarly energies on …
Lots of virtual commencement speeches this month and next. • There’s iHeart Media’s star-studded “Speeches for the Class of 2020” podcast slated for May 15. • That same day, Facebook will …
5/6/2020 The answer to the first: never. The answer to the second: now. Seems straightforward, right? Basic business communications and emergency preparedness. But nothing is as it seems anymore. The …
Lots of executive communication pros we’re talking to are running out of things to tell employees about coronavirus; one of them offered this hard-bitten “Leadership Communications Primer for Numbing Times.” …
I was asleep at 9:00 p.m. but was awakened a couple of hours later, and there’ll be no sleep for awhile. As I have asked myself so many times in …