People often ask me how to inspire people in a speech. They ask cautiously, carefully, as if it’s something they should be ashamed to be wanting to know. They ask as if it’s an evil kind of magic like a love potion, that would give them an advantage in love and life that they don’t…
MICROSOFT boss Steve Sinofsky puts on a brave face as his company’s rival to the iPad FREEZES at the opening presentation. Here’s the video- The papers, not surprisingly, reported it as negatively as they could- Just after the Microsoft president explained how users could “browse smoothly” on the tablet, the system, which was being…
I met Sunil Bali at an event last month. He’s a great guy and writes an interesting and challenging blog, called ‘Adventures in Awesome Living…’ Here’s a great thought starter from him. Half aphorism, quote and truth (I know the maths doesn’t work). ”Three little birds are sitting on a branch of a tree. Two…
I heard Olivia Coleman, a rising star of the UK stage and small screen give a funny and interesting interview on BBC Radio 4 this week. I was intrigued to hear her saying that she deals with her constant stage fright by blanking the audience out of her mind completely, which is the opposite of…
I work with some great speakers in my day to day existence. People who lead businesses and do great things, and the last thing they need from me is coaching on the ‘how’ to deliver a relevant, focused message. They know how. They tend to use me as a source of stories, anecdotes, facts and…
It made me laugh out loud. In a profession where certainty is so rare, here’s a case where a marketing text message saved hundreds of innocent, Russian lives on New Year’s Eve 2011. Give the marketing guy a medal please Mr Putin. Black Widow attempted New Year Moscow attack but blew herself up by mistake…