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Profile of a Conviction Speaker: Margaret Thatcher (Part 1)

Brian LeggettNovember 9, 2012

“Those who live by the sword die by the sword” Margaret Thatcher, along with Ronald Reagan, was a conservative conviction politician who had a powerful influence on politics at the end of the Cold War years. She, like Reagan, moved both economic and foreign policies to the right. In foreign affairs, she aligned with theUnited […]

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Kennedy and the Forensic Style [video]

Brian LeggettApril 17, 2012

Kennedy’s address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 1960.   Comment: Kennedy came to Houston to defend his candidature for the presidency of the United Stated that year. It had been publically asserted that a Catholic president would owe his allegiance to the Pope in Rome and not to the Constitution of the United […]

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Brian O’C Leggett

Brian Leggett is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Managing People in Organizations. His areas of interest include the use of persuasion (rhetoric) and dialectic in the management process; the practical application of persuasion and dialectic in management situations; and the connection between leadership and communication.

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