by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Apr 15, 2025 | Thoughts You Can Use
Did you watch the Master’s golf on Sunday? In part I ask because I realize my audience is pretty diverse. As a strategic communications leader I do work with CEOs of fortune 500 companies. But I also work with plenty of people helping good causes communicate....
by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Apr 9, 2025 | Thoughts You Can Use
Are you a good leader? I am. I know I am, because right now I’m not one. I know leadership comes with a personal cost and I don’t owe that to anyone. I don’t like the burden of leadership, even though it’s been thrust on me since I was a teen....
by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Apr 1, 2025 | Thoughts You Can Use
I’ve just finished a great historic novel by Paul Theroux called “Burma Sahib,” in which he imagines George Orwell’s formative early career as a policeman in what’s now called Myanmar, between 1922 and 1927. Orwell died of tuberculosis a...
by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Mar 25, 2025 | Thoughts You Can Use
I watched “The Apprentice” this weekend. My poor wife has had flu for ten days and I’ve been doing a lot of childcare, as well as running the business. On Saturday and Sunday night our four-year-old did me the enormous favor of falling asleep on...
by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Mar 19, 2025 | Thoughts You Can Use
Amid all the horrific news of recent weeks, a changing of the guard is afoot in the Democratic Party. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has repeatedly slammed Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer’s decision to enable a Republican bill that would...
