Make it more strategic

Jul. 31, 2013 by

A client was asked by his CEO to make his presentations to the company’s Board of Directors more strategic. The client, a charming, personable guy, tended to fill his slides with evidence of all the work his department was doing.

Lend Me Your Ears!

Jul. 24, 2013 by

A few years ago, my wife and I took our 3-year-old daughter Georgia shopping for her Halloween costume. She wanted to be a black cat, so we got her a black leotard, white gloves, black velvet cat ears, and a

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