CEO talks pay (in a mealy-mouthed way)

First, Kroger chief David Dillon called his pay package “ludicrous” at the Aspen Ideas festival. Later, perhaps after having received some guff from his CEO peers, he walked that back …

“Prime Minister’s Larynx” talks back

Here in the halls of the Professional Speechwriters Association, we cheer when speechwriters use their credibility … to influence the public debate, as British prime minister David Cameron’s ex-speechwriter Clare …

The Banker Who Talks Too Much

(H/t Ernest Hemingway.) “Do we incessantly hear Jamie Dimon’s opinions because he is particularly insightful or consistently wise,” asked one of the many smart readers of the useful and free Executive …

That Lame Commencement Address

To say that commencement talks are clichéd is to engage in cliché itself; it is as profound an understatement as "Jessica Alba would prefer that Mr. Long not call her …

Exec, communicative

Yesterday I was standing in my living room cheering. Not at the football game, but at the New York Times’ “Corner Office” Q&A, where SunGard president CEO Crist0bal Conde was …