Category: News

If you’re anything like the communication execs I’ve been talking to—after this last exhausting and disorienting year, your team needs more than a pep talk. It needs a renewed sense …

Your first worry, when you organize a conference on a subject that seems as basic as the title of “Communicating to Understand” suggests, is that no one will come, everyone …

An Effort to Understand is available for immediate purchase—on Amazon, or anywhere you buy your books—in print, in Kindle and as an audiobook, narrated by me. Communicators will love it, …

Veteran speechwriter James C. Humes, who passed away on August 21 at the age of 85, was a speechwriter to five successive Republican presidents, from Eisenhower to George H.W. Bush.  …

Airline CEOs and union leaders gathered in a joint event outside the U.S. Capitol Tuesday to plead for another $28 billion in federal aid for their industry, according to CNN. “The …

The Executive Communication Report has come out every Friday since 2008, to keep speechwriters and executive communication pros up to speed on the latest doings in their then-relatively sleepy industry. …

James Humes, speechwriter to presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan and George H.W. Bush, died last Friday at 85.  For the Nixon administration, Humes drafted the inscription on the plaque left on the moon: …

What should speechwriters, especially, be watching for during Joe Biden’s acceptance speech tonight, at the Democratic National Convention? Co-author of The Political Speechwriter’s Companion and PSA Advisory Counselor Robert Lehrman writes in The …

Something’s happening here. Last week, more than 100 CEOs and former CEOs released a letter calling on Congress to pass long-term relief for small businesses. And this week, CEOs of 27 …