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No one is more dangerous to a company than an enthusiastic executive communication professional who has changed her mind. Luckily for companies, most exec comms pros don’t. Unluckily for Google …
“I’m just a dumb writer,” was something I heard my writer dad say a lot. And I think he meant it. He ran his own advertising agency for a time, …
Quite some time ago, 72 weeks ago, to be precise, I left my job as a speechwriter in the federal government as part of the DOGE cuts. It was work …
From a veteran speechwriter correspondent, who has been part of an ongoing discussion around the Professional Speechwriters Association, about AI. The PSA’s AI guru Brent Kerrigan had sent around an …
At a recent gathering of exec comms directors, participants were asked to write a “midnight memo” to their CEO, to be read aloud before the group, in secret. As soon …
The Lorax spoke for the trees. I speak for the speechwriters. So I hate to side with anyone who refuses to hire one, for any reason. But a speechwriter wrote …
The through line from Marc Andreessen’s introspection-is-for-losers hot take to Donald Trump’s Easter Sunday greeting — “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards” — would be shocking if it wasn’t so predictable. …
This week The New York Times published a piece headlined, “CEOs Are the Heads of Companies. Should They Also Be the Face?” What’s your gut reaction to that question? As …
One of the best parts of participating in the City Club is being witness to moments of real, authentic civic work. There are moments at forums where you feel a …
I don’t speak for the members of the Executive Communication Council, to their great relief. But as this organization’s founder and executive director, I’m getting a little restless. The action was …