The Strategic Communicator Every Org Needs — and Algorithms Can’t Classify

The Strategic Communicator Every Org Needs — and Algorithms Can’t Classify

The problem is where the résumé meets the algorithms. Recruiters have a word for comms people like me. To them, I am a “cross-functional generalist who wears many hats.” Or something to that effect. Versatility is just a hard-learned requirement of the internal and external strategic communications job.

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The Most Underdeployed Executive in Your Organization Has a Comms Title

The Most Underdeployed Executive in Your Organization Has a Comms Title

Organizations that modernize most effectively aren't the ones with the biggest technology budgets. They're the ones smart enough to put a communications strategist in a leadership role not only before the plan is finished — but at the starting gun. That's the person who already knows where it's going to break down.

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AI Adoption Isn't a Tech Problem. It's a Conversation You're Not Having.

AI Adoption Isn't a Tech Problem. It's a Conversation You're Not Having.

Every organization right now is somewhere on the AI adoption curve. But it’s not quite a Golden Age yet. More like a golden retriever. Some are enthusiastically chasing it like a tennis ball in the park. Others are being dragged toward AI to have their noses shoved into the mess on the carpet. 

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Every Flight Needs a Tower: The Highest-ROI Structure Change You Haven't Made Yet

Every Flight Needs a Tower: The Highest-ROI Structure Change You Haven't Made Yet

The easiest organizations to fix are the broken ones. The harder problem — and the more common one in mission-driven public sector work — is the organization where everything is actually pretty good. Every instrument is reading normal. And yet the flight is just slightly off course and hitting pockets of turbulence along the way.

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