Fast Company magazine posed this question to Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin: “What’s the most important lesson that business leaders can take from [Presidents Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and LBJ]?” You needn’t be a senior executive to heed her response, which applies to anyone whose success depends on the ability to sell, persuade, or influence …
You don’t have to be a cook to know that you can’t put ten pounds of stuffing into a five bound bird. Yet, metaphorically, presenters do that when they talk fast in an enthusiastic effort to get everything into a listener’s mind as quickly as possible. The mind can only take in and process so …
I have been cleaning out my files in preparation for a move of offices and came across newsletters that I wrote ten, fifteen years ago. It is amazing how even with the technical changes in our lives in this time period, how some things never change. For example… From Winter: 2000 “So, What’s Your Story?” Too …