Wednesday, March 30, 2016

How not to coach - Jimmy Kimmel Mansplains to Hilary Clinton

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On March 24th a humorous 3-1/2 minute YouTube video was posted by Jimmy Kimmel Live. Watch him provide contradictory advice to Hilary ...
Monday, March 28, 2016

A brief book review of Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

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I have been reading and greatly enjoying Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic’s excellent recent book Storytelling with Data: a d...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Would you rather hear a speaker with a wealth of knowledge, or one with an excellent depth and breadth of knowledge?

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A post by George Torok on March 24th at the LinkedIn Public Speaking group asked Would you use the phrase “wealth of kno...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Public speaking, fear, fairy tales, and unicorn poop

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Occasionally I run a Google search on fear and public speaking. My latest one turned up a March 22nd blog post titled Th...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Explaining something by comparison with the familiar

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South of Boise and east of Cole Road, on the sagebrush that will become the Syringa Valley subdivision, I saw an enormous piece of constru...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

R.I.P. Andy Grove

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Yesterday Andy Grove , former CEO of Intel and one of the creators of Silicon Valley, died. If the news cycle were les...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Don’t dress like a ninja when you are going to speak!

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Men often wear a navy blue or charcoal gray suit when giving a speech. What happens when there is a charcoal gray curt...