Five Public Speaking Lessons from Donald Trump’s Thursday Night Acceptance Speech
Donald Trump is one of those figures that politics churns up from time to time about whom few are half-hearted ...
What It Takes to Succeed as a Public Speaker Today
Motivational speeches have acquired a bad name in some quarters. In 2008-9, the market for them tanked, and ever since ...
The Night Sir Paul McCartney Danced with the Gronk
I joined roughly 35,000 people this past weekend to see a living legend play guitar, piano, and sing. Sir Paul ...
How to Hook Your Audience
A reader of this blog recently sent me Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, by Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover ...
The Meaning of Brexit for the Rest of Us
The spectacle of the Brexit vote and all the commentary by politicians on both the “Leave” and “Remain” sides reveal ...
Storytelling Secrets with Carmine Gallo
Carmine Gallo has written about TED talks and Steve Jobs, as well as inspiration secrets from other sources in half ...
How to Illuminate Your Organizational Communications
Illuminate: Ignite Change through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols by Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez I interviewed Nancy and Patti a ...
The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
I picked up Chris Anderson’s TED Talk guide to public speaking with huge anticipation. After all, Chris and TED have ...
How to write a commencement speech
It’s commencement season around the US. Several thousand universities, and tens of thousands of high schools, are gathering to bestow ...
What were you doing when you were 16? This teen is saving lives.
When I did a blog post interview with the teenage entrepreneur Caleb Maddox a couple of months ago, I was ...
