The Bush Doctrine on Speech Writing In his entertaining memoir Speech*Less, speech writer Matt Latimer reveals something about the speeches developed for President G.W. Bush. By the way, he was one of the speech writers. ‘I quickly discovered the answer… Read More »The Bush Doctrine on Speech Writing
We are entitled to our own opinions, but none of us is entitled to our own facts. In fact, most of us hold our opinions with little respect for facts. For instance, when you ask a passionate partisan why she voted… Read More »Let us now praise specifics
At the annual LP meetings I’ve been working on, I have noticed that the senior guy wants to give his views on the macro economic picture. He wants to do this for good reasons: To put the results his team… Read More »An Emerging Problem at Limited Partner Meetings
Here’s the scenario. A bio-tech company will fly to Paris to convince influential French physicians to use their compound-in-development in clinical trials. The company has invited the French doctors to a nice meeting room in a nice hotel and plans… Read More »Scientific Presentations: Hitting the Audience in the Heart
Blaise Pascal was a 17th century French mathematical genius who spelled out the laws of probability more clearly than anyone before him. This was a watershed moment, because for the first time humanity had a systematic way of thinking about… Read More »Pascal’s Wager and Public Speaking
Blaise Pascal was a 17th century French mathematical genius who spelled out the laws of probability more clearly than anyone before him. This was a watershed moment, because for the first time humanity had a systematic way of thinking about… Read More »Pascal’s Wager and Public Speaking