What you business types have always secretly suspected about writers and designers is true: We sit around in cafés all day, peering into our laptops and muttering to ourselves. Sometimes we take breaks to play Words With Friends, or to drink coffee and mutter to each other. All that muttering? Sometimes it’s about the joys [...]
Posts Tagged ‘executive communications’
How to Write a Great Blog Post
The trouble with writing blog posts is you need to unlearn some of the skills for creating polished written communication that have taken you years to hone. A sense of casualness, or a bit of an “I just dashed this off on my way to a meeting” mood, is what readers expect from blogs. Posts [...]
Southwest Airlines Blog: Corporate and On-Message, But a Fun Read
If you’ve ever flown Southwest Airlines, you know that their corporate image is about having fun and embracing the inner goofball, while seriously and professionally moving you from point A to B. Witness the singing flight attendants, the gate agents that crack bad jokes, and the former CEO who challenged a competing exec to an [...]
Executive Blogs Need to Mix It Up to Lure Readers
The problem with CEO blogs, said marketing guru Seth Godin several years ago, is that they rarely have the qualities that make for engaging reading: candor, urgency, timeliness, pithiness, and controversy. “Does this sound like a CEO to you?” Godin asked. Well, no—for the most part, executive blogs are pure vanilla, and at worst, simply [...]
Speech-Crafting Lessons from the White House
Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, it’s hard to deny that President Obama has brought powerful speech-giving back to the White House. Much of the credit goes to Obama himself. The award-winning author is heavily involved in the drafting of his speeches—and packs a punch with his delivery. It is also clear [...]
