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Philippine businessman Manuel Pangilinan said he had some speechwriting help for his recent commencement address, but in the end he took responsibility for some passages borrowed without attribution from President …
Liz Carpenter on speechwriting, David Murray on thought leadership and William Blake on the Tea Party movement
Speechwriter Colin Moorhouse uses Lord Birkitt quotes to tickle potential clients. The quotes are good for audiences, too!
President Obama and chief speechwriter Jon Favreau, in mid-negotiation over the draft of an address to a joint session of Congress, Sept. 9, 2010.
Yesterday at Columbia University in New York, French President Nicolas Sarkozy veered off a prepared speech about the happy history of French-American friendship to deliver a lecture to Americans. “You …
Liz Carpenter will be missed, and so would her kind—except there never was anyone very much like her. Do not fail to read Hal Gordon’s fine remembrance of the wise and …
Dateline, Calgary. Coming to you from RonCon 2010, where I’m talking executive communication and employee communication. During my half-day rap yesterday on speechwriting and exec comms, an audience member said …
British chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks tells a yarn about affluent schoolchildren who don’t quite understand the meaning of the word “economy.”
“If you try, you will be found out. Your readers will know, and the word will spread. … In the end, you will do irreparable damage to your personal brand.”
Ultimately, a vision statement is an appeal to what Lincoln would have called “the better angels of our nature.” So if you get a chance to write one, make it good.