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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Last week at the Executive Communication Summit that my company convened, I interviewed the famed Yale Management School Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who took us back to the beginning of the …
Earlier this month we invited speechwriters and executive communication professionals to share, at whatever level of confidentiality they desired, how they’re faring in the new administration: “What is going on …
My old pal Steve Crescenzo was on a Zoom call with a prospect the other day, a young woman. “About ten minutes into the 30-minute call, she appeared to wipe …
As the new administration approaches the gates, people who help institutional leaders communicate are trying to figure out which way the wind will blow (and whether it will blow hard …
I once found myself dancing in a tavern in Bayfield, Wisconsin with a local woman whose hands were so rough that I couldn’t help asking her what she did for …
The old joke: An Irishman walked past a bar. It could happen! Well, I feel the same about philanthropic, civic-minded billionaires. It could happen! Another one bites the dust. Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, in …