Bill Bradley, also known as Dollar Bill, the Ivy League star of the now bedraggled New York Knicks, once said, “When you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is, and when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other… Read More »Don’t be Afraid of Rehearsal. Professionals Rehearse.
There are dangers all around us. Not climate change, not food poisoning, not a car accident. Nope, it’s the danger of impromptu speaking. The CEO asks you a question. You stutter and can’t spit out an answer. Or your boss… Read More »How to be an Off-The-Cuff Hero
Go Ask Alex Honnold… …the guy who climbed the 3200 foot rock face of El Capitan in Yosemite National park without ropes, the “Greatest athletic feat of any kind EVER,” or so said the New York Times. For ten years… Read More »Go Ask Alex Honnold
If you need advice on how to introduce a speaker look no further than Richard C. Borden’s 1935 classic Public Speaking as Listeners Like It. Here, collected and condensed, are the author’s inimitable insights. 5 Don’ts When You Introduce a Speaker… Read More »How to Introduce a Speaker
What is the best way to learn? A pottery teacher split her class into two halves. To the first half she said, “You will spend the semester studying pottery, planning, designing and creating your perfect pot. At the end of… Read More »The Best Way to Learn
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 – 1895) was a self-taught English biologist specializing in comparative anatomy. He earned the nickname “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his advocacy of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Why am I telling you this? Because Huxley said something… Read More »Everything and Something: Power of the Spoken Word