Fierce Conversations

Fierce Conversations

Aug. 4, 2010 by

I read the following in The Alternative Board’s newsletter today and want to pass this on to presenters and persuasive speakers. What conversations are you avoiding?  Maybe it’s with a good friend you don’t want to hurt.  Maybe it’s with

Two kinds of selling

Two kinds of selling

Aug. 4, 2010 by

I spent a day working on sales messages and presentation of those messages with a sales force, except the sales force was divided in two—half were an outside field force, and half were inside sales. We discovered that it was

The fourth wall or not

The fourth wall or not

Jul. 20, 2010 by

Over cigars and Chivas on Sunday night with Dikki Ellis, Michael Christensen and Zach Grenier, we came across an interesting distinction between clowning and acting, and one that is helpful to business speakers. Michael is a Co-Founder of the Big