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Last week Axios published a simplistic piece—(surprise!)—titled, “America’s CEOs Have Gone Silent on National Tragedies.” Leaning hard on a comparison between CEOs’ vocal reaction to George Floyd and the relative corporate …
If the feverish talk about ChatGPT and other IA composition tools leave speechwriters in grinding dread for their livelihood, the Professional Speechwriters Association offers some strong anti-anxiety medication: a new …
Plenty of writers see ChatGPT as a threat because of its ability to generate readable content in a matter of minutes. For my part, I prefer to view it as a …
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 …
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 …
When I sat down in a conference room in San Francisco to listen to a presentation on executive communications, I wasn’t expecting to take it … so personally. As researcher …
Some old activists in my neighborhood tell a story from forty years ago, when Pizza Hut was tearing down a historic corner building to put in one of its cheesy …
I’ve shown clips of this speech in talks around the world, because it demonstrates the power of speeches to convey the humanity of their givers—sometimes in ways the givers don’t …