If you are a fan of tennis, you know that a young Canadian woman, Bianca Andreescu, won the U.S. Open. She defeated Serena Williams, one of the greatest female players in the world. But if you are a rabid fan… Read More »Create Inspiring Online Vision Board: Guest Blogger
Want to get your rose-colored glasses blown off your nose? Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize… Read More »20 Quotes that Make You Realize the World Doesn’t Make Sense
A gaffe has been described as “speaking the truth by mistake.” Actually, it’s a little more complicated than that. It’s more like saying what you really think at that point in time, which is different from speaking the truth. Both… Read More »Public speaking: Off the cuff is off limits
Many people acknowledge that President Obama is a good public speaker. At the same time, many note a significant difference in the quality of President Obama’s speech between those occasions when he uses a Teleprompter and those when he speaks… Read More »Public Speaking: On the use of TelePrompters
Traveling to a foreign country, we will have trouble communicating with the locals if we don’t speak their language. We may also have trouble reading their facial expressions. Hillary Elfenbein of the University of California at Berkeley has done a study… Read More »Communication Skills Training: Facial Dialects
It pays to have friends in high places. Eric Schurenberg, a neighbor and friend of long-standing, has seen fit to cast me as a poster child for the road less taken to riches. Since I am not rich, and hardly… Read More »Executive Speech Coach Sims Wyeth in Money Magazine