Is This Your Year to Write a Book?
Should you write a book this year? Do you have an idea that you’re convinced the world needs to read ...
Why You Should Become an Intimate Speaker
One of the unintended consequences of our new, amazing, super-convenient virtual world, where everything (almost everything) is a few clicks ...
In Defense of Audience Interaction
One of the unintentional by-products of TED is that speakers, in an effort to mimic TED’s success, have been making ...
How to Increase Your Authority as a Thought Leader
I grew up in one of those little towns in America where, if you’re not remarkable in some clear, school-approved, ...
Why Your Next Presentation Should Be Like an App
B. J. Fogg called it captology, the science of how you get computers (think apps) to persuade people to do ...
Why Trump Won
Both Democrats and Republicans could be pardoned for feeling shell-shocked at the Trump upset win of the US presidential race. ...
Trump v Clinton, One Last Time
And now for the acceptance and concession speeches after the U.S. Presidential Election. It’s a chance to see Trump v ...
Should You Interact with Your Audience or Just Hold Forth?
What does a speaker owe her audience? And what does an audience owe its speaker? There’s a clear trend at ...
Mr. Trump, Mrs Clinton, and Dry Mouth
We did it. We survived the angriest three Presidential debates in the angriest Presidential campaign since Jefferson versus Adams in ...
What Happened to the Public Discourse in America?
The human impulse, when confronted with a train wreck or a car crash, is to stop and stare. A few ...
