The Briefing.
A research note on leadership communications from Adventurous: the studies worth trusting, what they mean in practice, and who moved. Every edition is archived here.
A change of leadership tests what a communications programme is built on.
Lululemon's comms chief leaves four days before a new chief executive starts. The useful question is not who replaces him, but what survives him. Plus the reports worth reading and the month's comms moves.
Employees moved on AI before leadership's story did.
74% of frontline staff now use AI at work regularly, yet fewer than a third find their leadership's AI message clear. The gap is credibility, not wording. Plus four reports worth reading and the month's CCO moves.
The year the CEO trusted comms, and the year that trust gets tested.
Only 2% of Fortune 1000 comms leaders report falling chief executive confidence, down from 13%. The next test of that trust is the AI claim made in a leader's name. Plus four reports worth reading and the month's CCO moves.