Business Communication: You Are a Professional Speaker

Sep. 25, 2013 by

If you work for a company, and your job entails public speaking, you are paid to speak. That’s right, you are a professional speaker–in the same business as Anthony Robbins, Jack Welch, and Malcolm Gladwell. Your company is paying you

The Best Way to Lose an Audience

Aug. 21, 2013 by

In 80 BC, Cicero, the great Roman orator and statesman, set off for the Eastern Mediterranean on something like a cross between a gap year and oratory boot camp—showing, again, how he regarded oratory as a physical more than simply

Presentation Pointer:  Find the magic 20

Presentation Pointer: Find the magic 20

Jul. 15, 2013 by

Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was an Italian economist who noticed that 80 percent of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the people, and that 20% of the peapods in his garden produced 80% of the peas.  He invented