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Last summer our organization facilitated a founders’ meeting of the Higher Education Leadership Communication Council—a group of people who help higher-ed leaders communicate. Just in the nick of time, it seems. …
In response to a Professional Speechwriters Association survey, a speechwriter identified a problem in the leadership communication business these days: “Excited utterances and spontaneous speeches being confused for actual exec …
Exactly two years ago, on the cusp of our second virtual version of the PSA World Conference, I wrote the below. Today, tiptoeing toward our second straight in-person version—it’s October …
My mother wouldn’t buy us Kraft cheese singles, because, she told us, “It has all the nutritional value of a roll of toilet paper.” The Axios Communicators newsletter has the …
For three decades I’ve been listening to complaints from speechwriters and other corporate writers who don’t believe they receive the deference they deserve, from their bosses or even from their …
Did anyone else read the piece on Sunday by New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo, who said ChatGPT is already changing the way he goes about his craft? “Once you start using ChatGPT you …
(H/t Ernest Hemingway.) “Do we incessantly hear Jamie Dimon’s opinions because he is particularly insightful or consistently wise,” asked one of the many smart readers of the useful and free Executive …
Everybody’s talking about Chat GPT. “I’m currently experimenting with AI composition,” a retired speechwriter emailed me on Christmas Eve. “Frighteningly good. Something that will need to be taken into account …
Jean-Paul Sartre once clarified the meaning of his famous line, which came from an existentialist play he wrote in 1944: “Hell is other people” has always been misunderstood. It has …