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The Importance Of The Narrative

Whether you're presenting to a small group of people or a large audience your presentation must have a narrative to effectively get your points across.READ»

Quick Practical, Tactical Tips For Presentations

Today's post about positioning yourself in a presentation--this might be a VC meeting but also might just be a sales or biz dev meeting. It's any meeting where you are in a small room and are being called on to present.READ»

The Five Habits of Great Innovators

I've studied history's most creative strategists--from Napoleon Bonaparte to John Boyd--and compared their thinking habits with those of their modern peers--Grameen Bank founder Mohammad Yunus or Tesla CEO Elon Musk. I have found five thinking habits that stand out.READ»

Why Product Managers Wear Sneakers

I gave a talk last night to the Silicon Valley Product Management Association. The title of the talk, and this post, refers to the amount of running around outside the building (with the founder) product managers will need to do in a startup. Here is the gist of that talk.READ»

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Sliderocket Empowers a New Kind of Presentation

You've seen Microsoft's PowerPoint. But you've never seen an Internet-enabled, collaborative presentation tool like Sliderocket -- until now. Here Mitch Grasso, CEO and founder, tells us about Sliderocket the company and then shows us ...READ»

Web Based Software Helps Marketing Coordinator Career Development

A marketing coordinator that develops and follows through with a plan to track their own career development between employee performance based reviews, is much more likely to get a promotion or other employee perks, than are ...READ»

Golden Globes: Not Sure You’ll Be Speaking? Be Ready Anyway.

As someone who has had the honor and pleasure of working with celebrities, I am always glued to the awards shows. The recent Golden Globes provided a fascinating opportunity to watch and observe public speaking and presentation ...READ»

Did Google Mess-Up the Nexus One Event?

Remember how Sergei and Larry turned up late for the first Android phone's launch, and how bungled the event was? The guys weren't even at the Nexus One event. But the bungling continued. Does Google not care about this ...READ»

Lessons From Adam Lambert

Gosh, I wish I'd seen Adam Lambert's performance at the American Music Awards. Instead, I woke up to an uproar -- faces in crotches, girls on leashes, big, fat, same-sex kisses! Oh my. As a former professional performer, I ...READ»

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That Search Box....Can I trust it?

Many companies worry too much about their website design - instead they should worry about their Search boxes. While I don't have stats to blurt out right away, but it would be a safe guess that an average company's website gets 50% ...READ»

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Do we know the goal of communicating our own idea?

Have you ever found yourself fading in and out while someone is talking to you? And while you are doing that, you wonder what you are going to say next? It happens to most of us. We never tend to give a thought to what we want to ...READ»