You can’t talk to meeting dominators and ask them to behave. It doesn’t work. They are transfixed by their own oratorical brilliance. They compete with one another. They want to squeeze all the silence out of the room, the quiet moments
The power of examples is huge, and it’s probably underestimated. Recently, I went to a private equity firm. They were asking me to help sell a portfolio company that they owned. Of course, the presentation was really slick. They had
Have you seen the HBO documentary Becoming Warren Buffett? It was especially interesting to me when he talked about his fear as a public speaker. “You can’t believe what I was like if I had to give a talk,” he