“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a
“To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from ‘What information do I need to convey?’ to ‘What questions do I want my audience to ask?’” – Chip Heath, professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business What speaker doesn’t want their audience “hanging on their
“It takes a lot of work to breathe life into an idea. Creating an interesting presentation requires a more thoughtful process than throwing together the blather that we’ve come to call a presentation today. Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them
“Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression” – Barbara Streisand, American actress Earl Nightingale once said we make our prisons. If we make our prisons, we can break out of them.What prisons have you created from speaking myths have you fashioned for yourself that prevent
“Metrics are for doing, not for staring. Never measure just because you can. Measure to learn. Measure to fix.” – Stign Debouwere, statistician and data scientist No doubt you have heard the term “metrics.” Metrics are simply a way to measure, usually in numbers, how