Skip to content
  • Return to Blog Network
  • Rhetoric and Leadership Home
  • About the author
    • Personal
    • Introduction to ‘Soft Power’
    • Courses
      • Diplomacy and the Art of Management
      • Management Communications seminar
      • Corporate Communications
    • My Publications
Menu
Rhetoric and Leadership
  • Classical Rhetoric
  • Current issues
  • Forms of Oratory

Be Careful Mr. Cruz: Revenge Can Be Self Destructive!

Brian LeggettJuly 28, 2016

It was an accident prone week for the principal speakers at Republican Convention last week. We had Melania Trump’s speech which followed a customary ceremonial (epideictic) model; then we had Ted Cruz’s speech, which was a forensic speech albeit a negative one, and finally Donald Trump’s acceptance speech, which was deliberate in style and content. […]

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.

IESE Number One

Follow this blog

Mail    rss

Recent Posts

  • It’s Brexit, once again!
  • Rhetoric makes the news!
  • The new Cumming’s Government
  • Now it’s SIR Ollie!
  • Can Mr Johnson invent an acceptable fudge?
  • Is it a new adventure in film or merely propaganda?
  • The question is how will Mrs. May leave Downing Street?
  • Reading Julius Caesar may help Mrs May
  • Is it good-bye Mrs May?
  • Nothing is ever what it appears to be!

IESE Business School University of Navarra

  • Legal Notice
  • Terms of Use