What is the best way to learn? A pottery teacher split her class into two halves. To the first half she said, “You will spend the semester studying pottery, planning, designing and creating your perfect pot. At the end of… Read More »The Best Way to Learn
Actually, there are infinite ways to structure presentations, but these seven are the most popular. In any major art form that has stood the test of time there are structures. In poetry, there are sonnets–Shakespearean and Petrarchan, odes, epics, elegies, villanells, sestinas,… Read More »Infographic: 7 Ways to Structure Presentations
Guess who is described below. He was at one time the most famous man in America. Identify the mystery man, and Sims Wyeth & Co. will send 10 lucky winners a very special copy of a book called A Zen… Read More »Guess Who
A researcher in a large pharmaceutical company was getting ready to sell his idea for a new drug to the executive committee. His molecule showed promising activity in the test tube and in animals, and he wanted funding to test… Read More »A True Presentation Disaster Story
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” Three out of the four nouns in this famous sentence penned by Winston Churchill are concrete nouns. That’s probably why it’s a famous sentence. It packs a powerful sensory… Read More »The Worm That’s Eating your Eloquence
Underneath what you do is who you are. Who you are is mostly immeasurable, since you are so many things. The artist Aligheiro Boetti added an ampersand between his first and last name. He did it to demonstrate that he was not single, but multiple selves. He became Aligheiro & Boetti…