Over at HBR, Roger Schwarz shares with us a telling exercise. Glance over the following three questions and see which is genuine–that is, actually opening up the option for the person you’re talking ...

A question that is asked to make a point rather than to get an answer. If you’ve ever been home late, you might have been met with this rhetorical question: "What time do you call this?” The person ...

When you advertise your small business, you can compete with larger, more expensive ad campaigns by using the techniques big advertisers use. Rhetoric is the artful use of language, and the purpose of ...

With the year-end fast approaching, many organizations are diligently wrapping up their strategic planning for the upcoming year. While crafting a robust strategy is commendable, Harvard Business ...

Rhetorical questions expressing premises are situated at the intersection of two disciplines whose object of study is argumentation: dialectic and rhetoric. This paper examines arguments in biblical ...

When did you last hear a speech about the European Union that interested you? Or, if you were not present at the speech’s delivery, when did you read the text of a speech about the European Union that ...