Perfectionism snags a lot more people than you might imagine. Here is a conversation about understanding and overcoming it and how it affects communication. Vitale Buford Hardin, an expert in perfectionism and the president and CEO at The Hardin Group, shares insights and recommendations.

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.

“No matter how talented a team is, it still has to work together and figure it out,” Jayson Tatum, star NBA player and Boston Celtics forward recently said.

Stephanie Licata, senior learning strategist at Cloverleaf and an ICF Certified Coach, breaks that reality down.

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.

Annual Performance Reviews need to be a thing of the past, at least according to Twitter co-founder and former CEO and current Block CEO, Jack Dorsey.

Communication Intelligence discusses what Dorsey specifically said about what the trouble is with annual performance reviews, what is more needed and will be superior and what the absolute truth about leadership is and requires, including of him.

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.

A recent LinkedIn post provided pointed questions to ask to conduct effective root cause analysis.

Why is it a superior approach to develop solutions or a necessary method to balance with temporary solutions?

Communication Intelligence, George Yang of Yanre Fitness, Eric Eng of AdmissionSight and Jason Mudd of Axia Public Relations discuss it.

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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent comments about Ukraine, the war, Russian interests and the United States are dissected here by Irina Tsukerman, an Ukrainian-born, Russian-speaking geopolitical analyst, national security lawyer based in New York and the president at Scarab Rising.

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.”