Find the middle ground
When I was ten, my childhood friends dared me to ride my bike down steep and winding Garfinkel’s Hill with no brakes and no hands. I took the dare, lost all the skin on my left knee, and for the
Presentation Skills: The Magic of Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a piece originally written in the late 1860’s, but published in The Atlantic many years later, Henry James Sr., the father of Henry James the novelist and William James the philosopher-psychologist, sought to explain just what it was about
Business Communication: You Are a Professional Speaker
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