Business Presentations: Stay Positive

Feb. 19, 2014 by

What do you do when, as a product director,  your brand is losing share to a new competitor, your colleagues and bosses know that your formerly successful product is being knocked off the shelf by a new technology, and it’s

Presenting in LP Meetings: Mistake #99

Presenting in LP Meetings: Mistake #99

Apr. 19, 2010 by

It’s still LP Meeting season in private equity and hedge fund land, and I keep running into basic errors. Here’s Mistake #99:  Not rehearsing together. I just came back from a meeting in which the Founder spoke first, followed by

No Excuses in Public Speaking

No Excuses in Public Speaking

Apr. 4, 2010 by

You can’t make excuses for yourself when you’re in front of an audience.  You have to do the best you can without divulging your aches and pains. There’s a tradition in show business:  “The show must go on.”  Actors and