The Communication Manifesto, Revisited
You’d yawn, if you started reading here about the trouble with corporate life these days, and corporate communication and I was saying stuff like: “Employee levels of distrust have probably …
You’d yawn, if you started reading here about the trouble with corporate life these days, and corporate communication and I was saying stuff like: “Employee levels of distrust have probably …
You could sense the desperation in the speechwriter’s email: “I’ve been tasked with developing rough guidelines to use when evaluating incoming speaking requests. In your travels, have you come across …
I went to get some pants let out a few weeks ago, and discovered every tailor in Chicago is overwhelmed with such work. This didn’t surprise me, as I’d just …
Four years ago, I was honored to attend the inaugural meeting of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business’s newly formed Leadership Communication Council, in Charlottesville, Virginia. I summed …
Professional Speechwriters Association chief David Murray got a question awhile back from a guy who normally has the answers—speechwriting sage Robert Lerhman, co-author of The Political Speechwriter’s Companion, speechwriting teacher at American …
As the pandemic lifts and life slouches backwards toward normal, we’re hearing more, not fewer, reports of real distress among the communication colleagues we serve. Communicators routinely breaking down in …
For many years I’ve shown audiences of speechwriters all over America and all over the world President Carter’s famous “Crisis of Confidence” speech, also known as his “malaise” speech, even …
Is your internal exec comms falling off a little lately? Or is it falling off the table? Into our fifth month of publishing our daily Executive Communication: Coronavirus newsletter, we still have …
Last Friday the Professional Speechwriters Association and the Executive Communication Council held our first full-on virtual conference. In my keynote remarks, I suggested that this isn’t the most crucial time …