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Category: Perspective

'Does European Speechwriting Have a Future?'
Leadership Communication / Perspective

‘Does European Speechwriting Have a Future?’

Tuesday. I am on a train. Behind me is a world full of chores: the kitchen lights that flicker like the worldโ€™s worst, most desperate, domestic disco; the disintegrating garden …

Leadership Communication / Perspective

It’s Lonely Near the Top (But Only If You’re Alone).

Recentlyย Forbesย hadย a pieceย quoting CEOs on why they join peer groups where they can exchange experiences and ideas with others just like them. โ€œI joined a peer group because I was making …

Leadership Communication / Perspective

How to Know Whether You Should Be Worried About AI Taking Your Speechwriting Job

Many of us were journalists before turning to rhetoric, which makes speechwriters an exquisite fusion of objectors and optimists with a weakness for eloquence: people who can spot the long …

Real State of the Union Revealed by State-of-the-Village Speeches
Leadership Communication / Perspective

Real State of the Union Revealed by State-of-the-Village Speeches

President Trump is giving his big speech to Congress tonight. But even when we have a president who does try to mouth rhetoric that remotely rhymes with reality, Iโ€™m not …

Leadership Communication / Perspective

A House of Civic Fellowship, in a Chaotic Time

Published earlier this month at the website of the City Club of Cleveland. โ€”ed. Political upheaval is both chaotic and clarifying, and the opening weeks of the second administration of …

Leadership Communication Confidential
Leadership Communication / Perspective

Leadership Communication Confidential

Dear Executive Communicator, Three weeks into the new administration, my newsfeed has never been louder, and my professional correspondence has never been quieter. For someone who has been close to …

The Year in Leadership Communication
Leadership Communication / Perspective

The Year in Leadership Communication

(Retail) Starbucks was down and (Robby) Starbuck was up. Boeingโ€™s CEO apologized sincerely, vowed solemnly and resigned eventually. Many beleaguered college presidents issued statements about why theyโ€™ll issue fewer statements …

You Don't Know the Gettysburg Address
Leadership Communication / Perspective

You Don’t Know the Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address was not a ceremonial speech, inevitably bound for a marble wall.ย  It was a strategy speech, designed to โ€œconvince a very skeptical public in the north that …

Why 'Executive Presence' Can Be a Touchy Topic
Leadership Communication / Perspective

Why ‘Executive Presence’ Can Be a Touchy Topic

Itโ€™s been a couple weeks since my company finished putting on a virtual seminar called โ€œExecutive Presence for Exec Comms Pros,โ€ and Iโ€™m still thinking about it.ย  Obviously, teaching about …

Executive Presence
Leadership Communication / Perspective

Do We Really Need a Course in ‘Executive Presence’? Yes, We Really Do.

The term โ€œexecutive presenceโ€ didnโ€™t exist three decades ago when I first became acquainted with the joys and sorrows of corporate executive communication professionals. But I would have made fun …

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