Installing forty blinking boxes around Boston to promote a TV show for Turner Broadcasting is like yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater. In this case, Marshal McLuhan is wrong. The medium (boxes) was NOT the message. Our interpretation of the… Read More »Communication Skills: Madmen Admen in Boston
My friend Charlie Green, co-author of The Trusted Advisor and other books on the role of trust in selling (www.trustedadvisor.com), invited me to dinner with his speech coach, Patricia Fripp (http://www.fripp.com/). Patricia is a dynamo, and continues to send me… Read More »Speech Writing: Nice Sermon, Pastor, Who Wrote it?
He was the son of a fire and brimstone New England preacher, the brother of the writer of one of our greatest Southern novels, a friend to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mark Twain, and the defendant in one of the… Read More »The Best Public Speaker in America