CommStar Blog

Are you an ambitious communicator looking for insights? Do you want to stand out in your organization or at least get noticed? Have more impact? Be heard? Maybe even move up? Jamie’s Communication Star Blog is for you. Keep checking back as he adds more quick reads with insights that might make you think and even make you smile.

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AI Is Not Evergreen

You can prompt AI to write a wedding toast in the style of a pirate, describe what it’s like to be terminated from your job in the style of Abraham Lincoln, or write a Maya Angelou poem from the POV of a Martian.

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Haunted By Typos

My Grandpa, or More Dad as we called him, would sit in his favorite chair and read with a pencil in his hand. He would read newspapers, magazines, books, manuals, and he would underline things he liked and he’d circle typos. Finding one in Newsweek was a BIG win, back in the day. I followed in his footsteps.

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Why Women Make the Best Leaders

In the many years since that first job I have worked for a few good guys and a few awful women, but many more women have reinforced my belief, as decades of studies have shown, that they make better leaders.

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