Author and Novelist Glynn Young
A mother’s last words, a father’s final message, and a strange painting. Michael Kent-Hughes faces personal tragedy, one that leads to long-lasting damage to the relationship with his youngest child, Prince Thomas. As the young boy grows to adulthood and the estrangement with his father continues, he finds his own way in life. But in […]
Layoffs were coming. The big announcement from the CEO was circulated by email. It was a masterpiece of vagueness. It didn’t say how many people would be affected. It didn’t say when the affected people would know. It did say there would be a severance program, although it included no …
It started with a phone call from a friend. “Did you see the job ad in the paper?” he said. “What job ad?” I said. “The city school district is looking for a communications director. You’d be perfect.” “Do you hate me or something?” I said. The city school district was indeed looking for …
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There’s nothing like a good crisis to demonstrate how little control an organization has. There’s also nothing like a good crisis to uncover the poetry in our souls. A product cancellation was looming, the cancellation to be imposed by a government agency. Thousands of jobs were at stake, not to …
The most solitary job in corporate America is not the position of CEO. It’s the position of the CEO’s speechwriter. It can be the loneliest job as well. I spent about two thirds of my career in speechwriting. Forty years ago, no one aspired to be a corporate speechwriter. You would find people …
It begins and ends with an open door. “The first line of the book and the last line. It’s so subtle,” said Glynn Young, author of Dancing Prince, the fifth and final in the Dancing Priest series. “They are very different kinds of doors and implications. I would like to say I plotted it out, …
An award-winning speechwriter and communications professional, Glynn Young is the author of three novels and the non-fiction book Poetry at Work.
