Hennes Communications Managing Partner’s Political Memorabilia Collection
The political bug hit Bruce Hennes, managing partner of Hennes Communications, as a volunteer during the 1972 Nixon-McGovern presidential election. It was then that he acquired his first and still-favorite political souvenir: a tag identifying him as a staffer for the News Election Service – a consortium of ABC, AP, CBS, NBC and UPI – […]
Communication Tactics To Supercharge Your Leadership
Communication is the real work of leadership: articulating a vision. Breathing life into professed values. Challenging the status quo. Engaging people’s heads, hearts and hopes. A lot of that communication is in day-to-day conversation, in meetings, and other routine interactions. But some of it also comes in the form of speeches or presentations. Death-by-PowerPoint is unacceptable. […]
Ryan Lochte’s Apology is Clear: He Doesn’t Realize What He Has Done Wrong
Let’s say you’re a guest in someone’s home. You and your friends are invited to a dinner at which the hosts, though cash-strapped, do their level best to put out a nice spread and show you hospitality. You over-serve yourself on their liquor, stagger around drunk and tear a picture off the wall, then unzip […]