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		<title>AI for Leadership Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 23:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was intrigued to read that the Professional Speechwriters Association is promoting a workshop titled &#8216;AI for Leadership Communication&#8216; taught by speechwriter Brent Kerrigan. The course promises: &#8230;[a] course with one goal in mind: to help leadership communication professionals gain a&#160;hands-on, practical, shirtsleeve&#160;understanding&#160;of AI’s role in our work and how to use it ethically, effectively [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Woman in Gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Right and true visual art (or image-art) should, most rightly and truly, be visited in silence, in depth, and in a context of deepest aloneness. &#8211; In Plain Sight Without a Word, Transcendental Realism, Adi Da Samraj (2010), p. 207. The New York Times, March 1, 2026 published a &#8216;10-Minute Challenge: Klimt’s Woman in Gold&#8216;, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Books Reviewed: Our Medieval Futures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Imagining a post-apocalypse world has long been fodder for Sci-Fi stories. From Mad Max and The Terminator to Children of Men and The Road, filmmakers and authors have explored a variety of unsettling dystopian futures. One genre I&#8217;m calling &#8216;Medieval Futurism&#8217; imagines a world where something nasty (nuclear war, pandemic, rampant infertility &#8211; take your [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Generative A.I. divides the writing profession</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2025/12/02/generative-a-i-divides-the-writing-profession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[chatgpt]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gotham Ghostwriters have released a report on a comprehensive survey of writing professionals who were asked about their experience with and evaluation of the impact of generative A.I. The conclusion points to a deep divide in attitudes between those writers who use A.I. regularly and non-users. Positive opinions Those familiar with A.I. report ways it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Story Structure Templates</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2025/11/24/story-structure-templates/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theboss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The irrepressible Jeremy Connell-Waite has posted a detailed white paper to LinkedIn comprising &#8220;20 Story Structures&#8221; to help us all tell better stories. It’s full of links, videos, book recommendations and courses you can do, to build your storytelling skills. You could even upload the PDF directly into your favourite LLM and have AI work [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Movie Review: Blinded by the Light</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2025/11/09/movie-review-blinded-by-the-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 14:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Javed &#8220;Jay&#8221; is a Pakistani teenager who experiences racial and economic turmoil while living in Luton, England, in 1987. He writes poetry as a way to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the stubborn views of his traditional father. One day, a Sikh classmate, Roops, hands Javed a couple of Springsteen cassettes (remember those?). [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Generative A.I.: The speechwriter for the rest of us</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2025/10/30/generative-a-i-the-speechwriter-for-the-rest-of-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Wednesday, October 29, 2025 Financial Times, Amit Singhal of Tarrytown, NY, points out that senior leaders enjoy the services of professional speechwriters, while the &#8220;little people&#8221; who lack access to these resources,. can now turn to generative A.I. for assistance. The position Singhal was responding to was that of Jemima Kelly&#8217;s October [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The rhetoric of Donald Trump</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2025/09/18/the-rhetoric-of-donald-trump/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theboss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The European Speechwriter Network has a well-established reputation as the premier group of professional political and corporate speechwriters outside the USA. I&#8217;ve just discovered their excellent podcast channel of over 160 talks delivered at past conferences. Three presentations caught my attention. The first two were talks delivered by journalist Kevin Toolis on the rhetoric of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>109 Rules of Storytelling, by Jeremy Connell-Waite</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2025/05/13/109-rules-of-storytelling-by-jeremy-connell-waite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 17:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[IBM]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[IBM&#8217;s Global Communications Designer, and Bristol, England resident Jeremy Connell-Waite has written an impressive FREE pdf booklet: 109 Rules of Storytelling. It&#8217;s available on his LinkedIn. Connwell-Waite&#8217;s introduction explains how the book came about: Over the last few years, I’ve given a lot of presentations on the art and science of storytelling, and I’ve hosted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book Review: 12 Bytes, by Jeanette Winterson</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2025/03/14/book-review-12-bytes-by-jeanette-winterson/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theboss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2025 01:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adi Da Samraj]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Subtitled &#8216;How AI Will Change the Way We Live and Love&#8217;, 12 Bytes builds on themes explored in her 2019 novel Frankissstein that I reviewed in an earlier post. In that review I noted that 12 Bytes is her 2021 take on AI, and a whole lot more. The twelve essays that make up the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Imagining the A.I. speechwriter</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2025/02/13/imagining-the-a-i-speechwriter/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theboss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Speechwriting]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent LinkedIn post by C-Suite Communications &#38; Public Affairs expert Guy Doza proffered a ChatGPT-generated picture of a formally dressed speechwriter holding a quill pen. The picture caused great amusement among speechwriting professionals. Comments ranged from &#8220;Not only is he a he, but his inspiration also appears to come exclusively from hims&#8230;&#8221; to &#8220;Definitely [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The A.I. Speechwriter: Chinese DeepSeek</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2025/01/29/the-a-i-speechwriter-chinese-deepseek/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theboss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Generative AI]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in July 2023, I posted a 3-part series examining how speechwriters can use generative A.I. tools like ChatGPT. This week the news about a Chinese generative A.I. &#8212; DeepSeek R1 &#8212; caused stocks in the shares of many American AI companies to slump. Commentators noted that the Chinese A.I. could &#8220;do more with less&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Transatlantic Table Talk</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2024/06/27/transatlantic-table-talk/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theboss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Weekend FT (subscription required), columnist Gillian Tett highlights the cultural differences between dinner party &#8220;table talk&#8221; on either side of the Atlantic. She observes that &#8220;Amer­ican pro­fes­sion­als tend to take it for gran­ted that when they meet over din­ner they will stage a com­munal debate.&#8221; &#8230;the idea is basic­ally the 21st-cen­tury ver­sion [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Homelessness on either side of the Atlantic</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2024/05/18/homelessness-on-either-side-of-the-atlantic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 03:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The proliferation of tent cities and decrepit RVs in towns and cities across America has led some to see this as a potent symbol of the economic crisis, as affordable housing is out of reach of ever increasing numbers of low income people. Indeed, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reported On [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Working Life V: The HP Way 2004-2008</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2024/04/10/working-life-v-the-hp-way-2004-2008/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theboss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following 15 years at Sun Microsystems and the sudden layoff that ended my work for a company that I fully expected to stay with until I reached retirement age, as described in my Working Life Part IV, I faced the challenge of making a living in Silicon Valley. Luckily, I had developed a network. Freelancing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The A. I. Sub-editor</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2024/02/10/the-a-i-sub-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My letter to the Weekend FT was somewhat marred by what I thought was a misleading title written by an FTT sub-editor. In contrast, my 2019 letter disputing Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s claim to be &#8220;the first populist that was elected&#8221; was given a brilliant title: A.I. Sub Working on tight deadlines, on a Friday night at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Civilization Myth</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2024/02/10/the-civilization-myth/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theboss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Differences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deep End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Josephine Quinn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonard Shalin]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve previously noted, the late author Leonard Shlain has written several insightful books that examine how literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. I was especially impressed by his analysis of the impact of the alphabet. I wrote a letter to the Financial Times in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Guest Post: Speechwriting Resources, by Terry Szuplat</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2024/02/07/guest-post-speechwriting-resources-by-terry-szuplat/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theboss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Speaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speechwriting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Obama speechwriter (2009-17) and Adjunct Professor of Speechwriting at American University Terry Szuplat for posting this resource list to LinkedIn. Be sure to check the Comments on LinkedIn for additional resources. Do you want to become a better speaker or writer? Here are 21 people I follow here on LinkedIn who offer great [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>We are what we wear</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2024/02/02/we-are-what-we-wear/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theboss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture Shock!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preppy style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ralph Lauren]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Display of wealth through clothes arrived in Europe in the late thirteenth century when a person&#8217;s class affiliation was signaled by what they wore. Because dress was recognized as an expressive and a potent means of social distinction, it was often exploited by the upper classes to gain leverage over others. Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu argues [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The A.I. Speechwriter &#8211; Tools of the trade</title>
		<link>https://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2024/02/01/the-a-i-speechwriter-tools-of-the-trade/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theboss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Speechwriting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crewe station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Generative AI]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My 3-part series on ways generative A.I. can be of value to speechwriters started with a simple example of generating ideas for a Best Man’s wedding speech, reviewed how it can help corporate speechwriters, and concluded with a deep dive into political speechwriting. In all cases, I emphasized that generative A.I. is a tool and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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