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 autobiography of a speech coach

The autobiography of a speech coach

Jul. 22, 2010 by

It is Sunday afternoon.  My wife is away for a week at a poetry summit in California.  No food in the fridge, dishes in the sink, bed unmade.   Too much TV. My daughter is engrossed in the music scene of