Authority, competence and burnout in the communications bullpen: Will Bailey's exacting leadership pressures exhausted interns (Cassie and peers) to rapidly professionalize messaging; crisis reframes that pressure into immediate operational necessity a...
Authority, competence and burnout in the communications bullpen: Will Bailey's exacting leadership pressures exhausted interns (Cassie and peers) to rapidly professionalize messaging; crisis reframes that pressure into immediate operational necessity as interns step up.
Events in This Arc
Will holds a late-night lecture with his exhausted speechwriting interns, snapping them awake, shredding weak phrasing and exposing half-formed thinking. The session reveals his militant standards and the interns' literal …
Will confronts an exhausted cohort of interns—singling out longest-serving Cassie—to force competence and urgency. He pivots from a personal admonishment into a crisp, didactic lecture on the administration's progressive tax …
In a late-night bullpen, Will celebrates the interns' surprising turns of phrase — praising their drafts on the tax plan — then abruptly shifts gears when he announces both a …