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Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation as New Zealand Prime Minister Wednesday, and she’ll be as sorely missed by the leadership communication community as by her supporters in New Zealand and admirers …
They say don’t meet your heroes. But last year I had the chance to meet Jacinda Ardern. In person she was more gracious, empathic and effective than the reputation that …
What is the state of American business? That’s the question the U.S. Chamber traditionally answers at this annual event. And we’re able to answer it because we listen to you …
This is the first edition of a monthly column we’re calling “Standard Practice.” Written by veteran executive communication director Kari Matalone, this is an attempt to broadly share some basic …
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 …
This generation of corporate CEOs issues more provocative commentary on a broader array of public issues in a year than their predecessors mumbled in a century. Search the decades of …
At the first World Conference of the Professional Speechwriters Association almost 10 years ago, I led members in a kind of caucus, asking them what they wanted the fledgling group …
When I started covering corporate communications as a baby trade journalist back in the early 1990s, here is what my colleagues and I considered big stories: • An editor of …
I don’t like books on rhetoric, generally. There are too damned many of them, for one thing. University of Richmond rhetoric prof Jerry Tarver donated his collection of “Elocution, Rhetoric …
I don’t know any more about running the world’s largest social media platform than anybody else. Nor do I have any useful theories about how bad Twitter will get under …