Hudson Native & Author David Murray On His New Book: "An Effort to Understand"

Imagine talking to the head of your company, not the regional manager, and not working for some mom and pop, but for a major player, a place like Arcelor Mittal, or American Greetings, or Steris, with thousands and thousands of employees. Do you feel so far removed from the CEO that you've likely never met?

And if you did bump into him or her, would the language you speak about the firm, and the one they speak about it - be about as different as English - and Klingon?

Enter David Murray, best-selling author and executive director of the Professional Speechwriters Association and the editor and publisher of Vital Speeches of the Day. That's an 85-year-old collection of the best oral communication in the U.S and the world. He's been a prominent commentator on communication issues for 25 years.

On The Sound of Ideas, host Rick Jackson talks to Murray about his new book, An Effort to Understand, where Murray shares his observations about how we Americans could communicate more effectively, whether its with family, co-workers, the politically different or that Klingon-speaking CEO.

He's also a Northeast Ohio native, with Hudson and Kent State as his alma maters.

The book has been endorsed by Governor DeWine, General David Petraeus, President Clinton's Chief speechwriter David Kusnet, and more.

Also on The Sound of Ideas, wel talk to ideastream's Nick Castele who's been talking to city leaders about the coming relief from the federal American Rescue Plan. 

-David Murray, Author, An Effort To Understand: Hearing One Another (and Ourselves) in a Nation Cracked in Half

-Nick Castele, Reporter, ideastream