Advice from a Kid With a Wooden Leg
Apr 02, 2012
“Be a little delusional,” says writer and actor Erik Stolhanske.
Vendor Profile – Executive Communication Technology
Oct 31, 2008
iSpeakVideo is one of a number of vendors that can transform your executives into walking, talking web site hosts.
He’s one of ours
Sep 02, 2015
He wrote a speech denouncing Hitler and fooled the vice chancellor into delivering it. No, it did not end well. But we ought to honor him by remember his name—Edgar …
Edgar Jung: The Subversive Speechwriter Who Slipped Strong Words Into a Politician’s Milquetoast Mouth
Feb 25, 2025
Edgar Jung wrote a speech denouncing Hitler and fooled the vice chancellor into delivering it. No, it did not end well.
I’m the Guy Who Wrote “The Art of the Deal”
Oct 25, 2017
Good morning fellow scribes, wordsmiths, storytellers, unpaid novelists, laid off journalists, untenured scholars, professional inventors and reinventors. I come to you this morning as a rueful, remorseful and penitent—a product …
What Would Churchill Do?
Apr 29, 2020
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 …
A party foul, to say the least
Mar 17, 2021
There’s an unwritten tradition that the previous president doesn’t criticize the sitting president. There’s an unnecessary tradition that the previous president’s speechwriters don’t critique the sitting president’s scribes. Unnecessary, because it always …