Rick Perry and the Blank Mind
Like many Americans, I was riveted by debater Rick Perry’s apparent brain freeze, as he attempted to talk about the ...
Corporate America needs a new story
Corporate America needs a new story – badly. The old story was that loyalty was rewarded. You worked for the ...
Why the debt limit talks are doomed – a rhetorical analysis
This is the 4th podcast in my series based on Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma. In this ...
Michael Chiklis, the Boston Pops and the 4th of July – the Hazards of Live TV
I love long summer nights, fireworks, and up tempo music. So the Boston Pops 4th of July fireworks and patriotic ...
A Speaker Scam — Update
In June 2010, I posted a blog about an apparent speaker scam. A friend of Public Words received an invitation ...
5 Leadership Lessons from The King’s Speech
For my blog today, I'm pointing to a new ebook on Amazon and iTunes that I've just written and published ...
President Obama vs Bill O’Rielly – Who Won?
President Obama gave an interview to conservative Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly before the Super Bowl last night, and the ...
What Should President Obama Say in his State of the Union Address?
What should POTUS say during his SOTU? Washington is a city of acronyms, so that sentence actually makes sense inside ...
What you don’t know about President Kennedy’s inaugural address
It was fifty years ago today that President John F. Kennedy delivered one of the shortest and most memorable inaugural ...
How to write a great speech: 5 secrets for success
David McCloud, the Chief of Staff of the Governor of Virginia, taught me how to write a great speech: • ...
