The oldest canard in public speaking is that people fear it more than death. But nobody ever put “jumpy about the big speech tomorrow” in a suicide note. But people …
This Friday we will officially unveil the winners of the 2022 Cicero Speechwriting Awards. To give you a sense of why the judges and I take such pleasure in this annual …
From a 2006 Stanford University commencement address by Vartan Gregorian, who died this week at 87. Hat tip to speechwriter Harry Kruglik for passing it along. —DM Today information floods …
It’s a rainy Sunday afternoon, I have a pot of soup simmering on the stove, and a stew of thoughts from last week rumbling and bubbling in my head. Soup …
In a year that began rhetorically with “we’re all in this together” and wound up emptily with “this isn’t who we are,” corporate CEOs have found another phony framing that …
“In the mid-1970s I began writing speeches for the Prince of Wales.” And thus begins a hilarious and fascinating section of journalist and author Byron Rogers’ superb 2009 memoir Me: The Authorized Biography. Rogers’ …
Next week my company takes off for our annual Summer Recess, which you know is is official because we capitalize it. A lot of people I know aren’t taking lots …
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