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How are you? We asked speechwriters and executive communication professionals, and they told us—clearly and in some cases colorfully. You should download and read the whole report, but here’s the gist: In-house …

Review of: Transatlantic Rhetoric – Speeches from the American Revolution to the Suffragettes by Tom Wright For more than 10 years, Tom Wright of the University of Sussex has concentrated his scholarly energies on …

Lots of virtual commencement speeches this month and next.  • There’s iHeart Media’s star-studded “Speeches for the Class of 2020” podcast slated for May 15. • That same day, Facebook will …

5/6/2020 The answer to the first: never. The answer to the second: now. Seems straightforward, right? Basic business communications and emergency preparedness. But nothing is as it seems anymore. The …

Lots of executive communication pros we’re talking to are running out of things to tell employees about coronavirus; one of them offered this hard-bitten “Leadership Communications Primer for Numbing Times.” …

I was asleep at 9:00 p.m. but was awakened a couple of hours later, and there’ll be no sleep for awhile. As I have asked myself so many times in …

I quit my job and moved across the country for this speech. It started out with a question I saw written on a white board during my final interview at …

Commencment-speech-a-palooza is taking place on May 15.  Put on by iHeartRadio, Commencement Speeches 2020 will include virtual talks by a couple dozen celebrities, from Hillary Clinton to Pitbull. “High school and college …

We’ve lost hold of the anchoring and orienting forms by which we connect to politics. Guess who to the rescue, for Democrats at least. The day after Bernie Sanders endorsed …

Review of Leading Lines by Lucinda Holdforth (HarperCollins, 2020) If you’re going to read one book about speechwriting this year, then pick up a copy of Australian speechwriter Lucinda Holdforth’s just-published Leading Lines. Her book …