You Think You Have Too Much Email? Wait Until Your Workplace Adds Slack!
The promise of word processing and email was that they were going to bring us friction-free communication and asynchronous convenience. ...
Why Speakers Should be Helping Audiences Forget What They Know
There’s a particularly tedious kind of speaker that ostentatiously tries to teach his audience something by having the audience repeatedly ...
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 ...
5 Top New Year’s Resolutions for Speakers
Happy New Year, everyone! I’m back from a little skiing, a little overeating, and a little doing nothing. The perfect ...
How to connect better with the people around you
For podcast #6 in the series based on my book Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma, I talk ...
Basic Principles of Persuasive Rhetoric – 6
Principle VI: Persuasive communication cuts through the clutter of information overload by dealing with safety issues. Turn Maslow’s hierarchy of ...
