It is telling that the greatest presidential speech in American history begins with a sentence that summarizes 87 years of our national story. It is a sentence above the fray, in fact 30,000 feet above the fray. It describes, from… Read More »Public Speaking: Two sentences at Gettysburg
Is it possible for anyone to become a great presenter? Let’s define our terms. Anyone is a college graduate in the western world between the ages of 21 and 65. Let’s define “possible” as an 80% chance that after reasonable… Read More »Becoming a great presenter
Albert Camus famously said, “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” Okay, very funny, Albert. But given the research coming out of universities demonstrating that students generally have poor retention of information delivered by the… Read More »The twilight of presentations?