“Draft speechwriter”: A dangerous delineation
A new term distinguishes speakers who collaborate with their speechwriters from those who simply read the script they’re handed.
“When he goes to hit you upside the head, move your head”
Boxing offers the best advice.
A speaking coach stands out
Speaking coaches are a dime a dozen, I as much as told Jeff Ansell at a conference last month. Then he stood up and proved me wrong.
Down with the canned keynote, up with the original speech
A couple weeks ago I attended and spoke at the World Conference of the International Association of Business Communicators, and was chagrined to hear a keynote address from someone other …
WATCH: Speechwriter manhandles speaker
Merlin and the young prince Arthur teach us more about the proper relationship between writer and speecwhriter.
The trouble with rap music these days? “Not enough ghostwriting in the game”
The best singers aren’t necessarily the best songwriters, argues business consultant Cedric Muhammad. Does the speech game also suffer from too many speakers and not enough ghosts?
Romney gets credit for facing NAACP; but it was votes he was looking for
I feel bad, chuckling at the boos that Mitt Romney received when he told the NAACP crowd today that he was going to repeal Obamacare—did he have to use the …
Bloomberg interrupts ceremonial speech to ask, “Who Wrote this Shit?”
To which the speechwriter might have replied, “You try writing a fresh speech for the annual hot dog eating contest every year?”
Rhetorical Triumph, the Anatomy Of
The last in a four-part “speechwriters digest” of Robert Caro’s new book on LBJ, The Passage of Power.
Everything you ever wanted to know about TED Talks
New Yorker identifies TED Talks as “a sentimental form” that people use for personal “transport.” It’s the oral-communication phenomenon of our time.