Sometimes people will tell you the unvarnished truth. We can laugh it off, at our own risk.

Actor Hugh Grant doesn't have the best reputation for good behavior on the set in the movie industry. He told Jerry Seinfeld that and Seinfeld decided to cast him in a lead role and work with him anyway.

He discovered Grant wasn't lying, eventually saying that Grant was a pain in the a--. This article briefly looks at what else Seinfeld said, what Grant said, how the working relationship matured and why the comedian may have taken the chance on a talented, but difficult professional.

Why boundaries and asserting them can work wonders for your professional life, how better follow-up habits can create business breakthrough and why expressing gratitude more regularly to others, but first yourself, can bring greater peace.

Kayla Logue, a non-profit founder, personal development professional, speaker and author of the book, “Always Squeezing Lemons (May, 2024),“ talks about these topics.

James Lawrence, the co-founder and CEO at Happy Companies, talks with Communication Intelligence magazine about why soft skills and emotional intelligence are more critically important to leaders and organizations than is assumed. He additionally converses about his own experiences and what he’s learned.

Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Costas is disturbed by what he’s seeing from the Democratic Party and President Biden before the 2024 election and pulled no punches in commenting about it.

Is what he said reasonable and worthy of attention or unproductive fear mongering?

Sylvia Baffour, an EI (emotional intelligence) motivational speaker, executive coach and the author of “I Dare You to Care" talks with Communication Intelligence magazine about conversing with your employees about the Israel-Palestine violence and pain.

What’s next when we've allowed our emotions to permit us to jump to conclusions, be initially overly judgmental and express it in a way that causes upset for others and problems for us?

This Communication Intelligence article examines this type of situation. It is based on a story in the news involving a well-known person in his field, accomplished professional golfer Rory McIlroy.

Cyndee Harrison, principal at Synaptic, a marketing and public relations agency, talks with Communication Intelligence magazine about how someone -- or an organization -- can respond to calls for a resignation or termination.

Honest, wise leaders will always look back and have regrets or admittances of some type of “failure” yet not everyone talks about it.

Ron Saich, founder and former CEO of Panera, talked about what he says was his biggest error. It’s an interesting one.

What Saich said inspired a conversation with four leaders.

Harvard University and its president, Claudine Gay, are under duress and public relations crisis. Will Gay survive it and continue to lead the school?

Blair Huddy, founder and CEO at Hudson Davis Communications, talks with Communication Intelligence magazine about the story.

New York Jets' quarterback Aaron Rodgers believes he has rooted out some bad faith reporting of his injury and long-lasting unavailability to the team during a disappointing season.

He states that the guilty party are the same media members who criticized his vaccination status.

Gail Sideman, owner and publicist at gpublicity, talks to Communication Intelligence about the story.

Mothers for Democracy posted a bold video on YouTube, calling for gun reform. Will the message succeed?

Nancy Thompson, the founder and executive director for the organization, talks about it and two communication professionals weigh in at Communication Intelligence magazine: Rick Alcantara, principal at Rick Alcantara Consulting and Mark Sachs, the founder at Orwell Grey Strategic Communications.

Magic Johnson's resume, high school to college to the NBA to the business world, is stuffed with surreal levels of success yet one game and one loss once created a severity of a loss of confidence and self doubt.

Communication Intelligence talks about Johnson's admittance of his struggle with Eric Eng, the founder, CEO and private admissions counselor at AdmissionSight and Nikki Jain, founder and CEO at The Sprout PR.

Comprehension determines whether communication has been effective.

Barry Maher, a presenter, author and principal at Barry Maher & Associates and Sruthi Dhulipala, a publicist, media strategist and the senior PR Manager at The Right Now talk to Communication Intelligence about this topic.

Brenda Christensen, the CEO at Stellar Public Relations, talks with Communication Intelligence about Jacqueline Kennedy's letter displaying leadership that she sent to Nikita Khrushchev, the country’s Chairman of the Council of Ministers, during a time of fear of nuclear war.

Leaders have the responsibility to notice problems with the potential to become significant incidents and address them promptly and successfully before an escalated state develops.

This conversation looks at the quote, “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”