When you want something badly, your first reflex is to explain why it is important. Don't. There are far more effective ways to persuade the people who matter to us.

A workplace is like an iceberg: there’s a whole lot going on beneath the surface that you can’t see. Restructuring. Comings and goings. Whole new departments materializing to deal with a new project.

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We are living in a contentious time in history. Fundamental disagreements on critical policy, economic, and political issues make it essential to learn how to compose an effectiveargument and to ...

In-house counsel may be able to read dense alerts, but they are not inclined to do so... Shortly after my post on writing category-killer client alerts went live, I received an email from a reader. It ...

If you’ve ever been drawn in by a tightly-written commercial promoting a juicy investigative report only to be bored to tears by the report itself, you understand the power of persuasive writing.

Many workers, especially those in their early careers, feel uncomfortable proposing new business ideas or processes to their bosses — even though bottom-up innovation can bring tremendous value to a ...

Or at least how to try. By Trish Hall Ms. Hall is the author of “Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side.” We’re all writers now. We fling words out into the universe through text, ...