Telling your story:  Tips for success

Telling your story: Tips for success

Jul. 12, 2012 by

Wired for Story:  The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence comes out today.  Its author is Lisa Cron. I have only read the Contents section and a few pages of the introduction,

Effective communicating:  Not just the facts

Effective communicating: Not just the facts

Jul. 12, 2012 by

Albums on which all songs sound more or less the same are boring.  Speaking voices that lack variety in pitch, volume, and rhythm are boring.  Watching grass grow and paint dry is boring.  And so is listening to a business

It’s a Trap: A public speaking mistake

It’s a Trap: A public speaking mistake

Jun. 19, 2012 by

I had a new client to meet in New York City, so to beat traffic, I left home early and arrived by 7AM, which left me three hours until the meeting. To kill time, I went to The Harvard Club