Past Is Prologue: The Executive Communication Year in … Preview?
Old sailors know that the weather is a liar. Sun and calm seem like they’ll last forever. And when the rain and wind are lashing you, you think it will …
On AI for Speechwriting: Not So Fast (or a Little Too Late?)
Jim Reische, special advisor for executive communications to the president of Williams College and co-founder of the Higher Education Leadership Communication Council, writes: The Professional Speechwriters Association recently published a …
Whither the Old Fashioned ‘Employee Town Hall’
Monday in the Executive Communication Report—to which you would be stone cold crazy not to subscribe because it is both useful and free—I published a communicator’s wish for a better name than “employee …
What Is Leadership Communication Academy Really Like? It’s Hard to Describe.
The second annual class of Leadership Communication Academy will meet March 3-4 in Chicago. Last year, after the first class, I tried to convey the experience of attending it, along …
Human Corporate Speechwriters: Rumors of Their Demise Are Statistically Dubious
It was close to Miller Time late last Friday afternoon when I stumbled across a LinkedIn post by veteran corporate communicator John Clemons that almost made me spit out my …
No, Benioff’s Blurt Isn’t a Lesson to All CEOs
Just to get you up to speed: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been known for the last three decades as a stakeholder capitalist—a progressive business guy, a big contributor to …
AI and the Speechwriting Process: A Dispatch From the Front
I’m witnessing miracles! The same policy people who used to take three weeks to deliver an incoherent mess of data points to me are now responding instantly with content that …
It’s Not AI, Sweetheart: a Stirring Defense of the Em Dash, and Human Writing
I am a retired Sergeant Major. Public Affairs. Twenty-five years of balancing truth with tact, writing for commanders who barely skimmed their own talking points, and editing the rambling nonsense …
Pregiarized!
There’s nothing new under the sun. (That’s an old saying too.) For years, I’ve been telling speechwriters there are two ways to coach speakers into becoming more dynamic, authentic and …
CEOs Say the Darnedest Things
CEOs used to love to say their companies were like families and employees were their most valuable asset. Until they started laying the family members off and dumping their most …