Reader Becky, responding to my first post in this series, wrote “I understand what you’re saying, but at times I have to include spreadsheets or pretty dense looking graphs in my monthly updates. Have any suggestions?” The first thing that comes to mind is “No, you don’t.” But of course it’s easy for me to [...]
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1. Your audience can read faster than you can read aloud. If you are reading text from your slides, stop it. Right now. It’s impossible to read aloud faster than your audience can read from the slides. Because of this, doing so will only annoy your audience… See #2. 2. If you have enough text [...]
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If you had to guess what the preeminent quality possessed by great leaders is, what would you guess? Intelligence? Perseverance? Empathy? Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, has studied hundreds of of high performing organizations and senior executives, and his conclusion with regard to what distinguishes what he terms “Level 5 Leaders” – the [...]
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All of the speakers at the 2008 World Business Forum mentioned or alluded to the financial sector mess, but only one offered a prediction for what will happen in the U.S. economy in the near term. Jack Welch’s exact words: “we are in for one hell of a deep downturn.“ Long a believer that the [...]
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Congrats to offbeat online retailer Woot – click here for their blog post relating to this latest achievement. And if you haven’t sampled Woot, you ought to give it a try. One day, one deal – until they run out of stock – very aggressive prices on a variety of merchandise with a focus on [...]
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You can easily – and for FREE – convert any PowerPoint presentation to a flash movie with iSpring. Coupled with Slideboom, you can easily share those Flash clips over the internet or via your blog or website. iSpring is a free PowerPoint add-on which couldn’t be much simpler to use. Get all the details here. [...]
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One unanticipated benefit of being in the business world for 20+ years is that I’ve been able to witness a marvelous array of astonishingly stupid human tricks, all performed in a seeming quest for immediate self destruction. If you sat around each night trying to identify clever stunts which would enable you to damage your [...]
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