by Gina Milani: Back in college at San Jose State University, I was pursuing an Advertising degree with a journalism focus and spent my senior year working at the Spartan Daily campus newspaper. The ad office sat right next to…

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by Amanda Swennes: Ghostwriting is equal parts art, empathy, and espionage, especially when your “voice” must channel someone else’s. Over the last few years, I’ve ghostwritten for three CEOs who couldn’t have been more different in tone, temperament, and approachability.…

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(The following is an excerpt from "Takeaways" by noted PR leader Marc C. Whitt) There’s a certain kind of person who makes everything feel manageable, even in the middle of a storm. In the world of nonprofit public relations, that…

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by Clarissa van Emmenes: Growth is exciting, but it’s rarely straightforward. As businesses scale, things move faster. Teams grow, priorities shift and the strategy evolves (whether intentionally or not). But the messaging doesn’t always keep up. Somewhere along the way,…

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By Mike Klein In the times of unpredictability we are facing, leadership paralysis is real.  As noted author and change innovator Dr. Leandro Herrero noted in our recent conversation, leaders across industries are "restless" and "don't know exactly what to…

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by Neil Morgan: Digital transformation is accelerating once again, this time driven by the rise of artificial intelligence. However, too many organizations still focus on the tools, not employees. I’ve seen several examples of companies who treat digital tools as…

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by Kanika Bedi: I still remember a late-night call from a colleague during a brewing social media storm. We were in damage control mode, scrambling to understand the facts, align internally, and prepare a public response. The pressure was immense…

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By Mike Klein: Even as organizations grapple with the challenges of AI and the potential for sweeping changes in organizational ranks, there remains a lot of continued emphasis on “employee experience” and continuing a decades-long trend, in “employee engagement”.   Deploying…

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by Rosemary Sweig: AI is here, and most employees are not ready for it. Just look at LinkedIn, where many conversations around AI in communications are still centred on how to spot who is using AI and forming AI resistance…

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by Charlotte Otter: (excerpt number one of two, exclusively for Strategic.Global) The leadership crisis  Through almost any lens, our current context is not great. We live in a world at war. The planet is discernibly hotter. A very small number…

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“Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.”—Dr. Karl Albrecht  That zinger from Dr. Karl Albrecht recently stopped me in my tracks. Not because it was shocking—because it was familiar. Albrecht calls it the organizational smart…

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by Natja Igney: This is the first in a series of three articles, each exploring a critical phase of crisis communications and reputation management. Although tactical responses are typically delegated to middle management, strategic responsibility - including the function of…

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