by Mike Klein: Over the last few years, the environment facing membership associations in the communication space has been tough.   Companies cut back on subsidizing memberships, vendors started throwing free, high-quality in-person and online events, and highly-moderated niche communities emerged…

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by Charlotte Otter: The leadership crisis is a crisis of leaders, in that we have the wrong people in place, creating the context in which we all live, shoring up rather than breaking down systemic problems. The fear-based, masculinist leadership…

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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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by Mike Klein and Janet Hitchen: As waves of political, social, and economic turmoil sweep across markets, we’re seeing signs that some executives are shifting - or are likely to shift - towards what we call "Command and Control 2.0".…

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by Louise Thompson: Tell me if you've ever been in this position? As a comms leader, you are asked to lead the development of a strategy and a narrative for some upcoming organisational change. Perhaps as a communications manager, you…

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by Rebecca Self, PhD.: When Strategic’s new Editor-in-Chief Mike Klein and I started discussing writing a column, I asked, “How are you defining communication?”  I wondered if the audience was comprised primarily of in-house comms folks like the role he…

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By Mike Klein and Janet Hitchen: The second half of our Navigating Disruption podcast season brought together communication leaders with diverse perspectives and experiences to explore how our profession is confronting unprecedented challenges. From AI-powered personalization to the shifting expectations…

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by Mike Klein and Orla Clancy: A new conversation is beginning to develop among communication professionals about “Communication Leadership.” At its essence, it's about the role of communication professionals as conscious and intentional participants in the events they communicate. In…

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