Jim Harvey

Posts By Jim Harvey

• Delivering your presentation

  Pitching- If you’re not committed you’ll fail and hate yourself anyway

  Here’s a great clip from YouTube with Michelle Pfeiffer explaining how she got the most important role in her life- Elvira, in...

• Business Development

  You’re on your own- Your bankers and accountants know almost nothing that will help you move ahead

  As a bloke who has built a few businesses up from nothing to sale, starting with no brand, no clients, no capital,...

• Case studies

  Vlad the Impaler- using a soft quote to wound

  You’ve got to love Vladimir Putin haven’t you?  OK, Probably not. And maybe have some sympathy with him? OK, definitely not.  But...

• Blogs

  Max Atkinson's blog- bloody brilliant and fanatically detailed

  I first read his book, ‘Our masters’ voices‘ when I was 22.  If I’m honest, lots of it was beyond me then....

• Case studies

  Charles Crawford- A model of diplomacy

  I went to a speechwriter’s conference last year- The UK Speechwriter’s Guild event, in Bournemouth, and I saw Charles Crawford speak.  I...

• Stand Out

  The best business book I’ve read- ever, and I’ve read loads

  I got it for Christmas.  From my wife. She loves me.  I was indifferent, to him.  For an Englishman, Lord Sugar of...

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  Fit Focus Flair

  What’s the story? It’s a question?

  I was working with Dystin Johnson, a British actor and screenwriter the other day, and in our discussions when trying to help...

• Fit Focus Flair

  When the presentation doesn’t matter- England crash out in the first round of a World Cup- Again!

  England was  humiliated yesterday.  Not by its football (soccer) team, or football ‘fans’,  for once, but at the FIFA held unveiling of the countries chosen...

• Connecting with the audience

  I'm listening, really I am

  My name is James, it’s what my mother called me, it’s what my 2 sisters, my twin brother and my creaky old...