Caring For Ourselves As We Care for Others: The Psychology of Resilience
Public health expert offers “four modest, but important suggestions.”
WATCH: Did I ever tell you how lucky you are?
An American’s journey into a rhetorical world where personal anecdotes are mistrusted and storytelling is suspect: The 2011 U.K. Speechwriters’ Guild conference, in words and video.
Why I like speechwriters: less b.s.
A final word on the UK Speechwriters’ Guild conference last month. I observed to myself that these British and European speechwriters are fun to hang with because they don’t talk …
Smaller government: Would there be room for speechwriters?
Conservative blogger proposes legislation that no executive branch official below Cabinet secretary be allowed a staff speechwriter.
WATCH: Speechwriters, on speechwriting
In a brief video, two former gubernatorial speechwriters offer some basic truths about the business, for the uninitiated.
Are presidents (and CEOs) just too damned busy to do decent speechmaking?
I couldn’t believe that no one had yet said it, exactly. Speech consultant Kristen Arnold responded to a blog post here about the declining effectiveness of President Obama’s speeches. “Politics …
Free speechwriting advice for Muammar Gaddafi, and other troubled dictators
Anonymous speechwriter pens a funny column in The Jerusalem Post teaching dictators how to fight from the ropes.
On Carol Bartz, and Yahoo (and Jack Welch and G.E.)
Do I like a CEO who swears a lot? No. But there are more egregious corporate obscenities.
Where trade crosses borders, armies do not
UPS CEO Scott Davis says, “Unfortunately, when it comes to trade, our country is AWOL.”
“If We Act Now”
President Obama proposes American Jobs Act to joint session of Congress.