Let’s mull the lull
Is your internal exec comms falling off a little lately? Or is it falling off the table? Into our fifth month of publishing our daily Executive Communication: Coronavirus newsletter, we still have …
Removed from the menace of groupthink, CEOs begin to get the message “right”
We’ve been at home for a while now, and it’s beginning to show. Not just in the obvious indicators—hair that needs cutting and touching up, wardrobes heavy on shorts and …
The first year of your new career
Last Friday the Professional Speechwriters Association and the Executive Communication Council held our first full-on virtual conference. In my keynote remarks, I suggested that this isn’t the most crucial time …
Speechwriter, repent
When you run a professional association, you like to believe you’re doing good in the world. And that the industry you represent contributes to the health of humanity. And that …
Speechwriter, Spiel Thyself
For almost 30 years, I’ve made some part of my living convening professional speechwriters or covering their silent struggles. If there’s been one prevailing sentiment among speechwriters across all that …
Leadership from Atlanta
Political eulogies rethicken and refasten community ties frayed by the untimely deaths of its people. We have no eulogies yet for the victims of COVID19. The socially distanced funeral for …
Two truths, self-evident: Why people are protesting violently, and why they should stop
The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah eloquently explains why people are protesting violently after the murder of George Floyd. African Americans “watch time and time again how the contract that they …