A speech, for the speechwriters
Dear Corporate Speechwriter: I find myself thinking of coach Herb Brooks’ pregame speech to the 1980 U.S. hockey team, as portrayed in the movie, Miracle, by Kurt Russell. “This,” Brooks shouts …
Corporate speechwriting, then and now
By the time he wrote his novel, Chronicles of Doodah, George Lee Walker was one disillusioned speechwriter. Having worked for Michigan Governors George Romney and William Milliken, President Gerald Ford, Ford …
A prayer for the communicator: an insider and an outsider both
“Please, God, let us always have outsiders and give me the grace, in my better moments, to know how to be one,” the old communicator wrote. “But I’m torn because I want to be an insider too.”