“The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet With computers, the Internet, and artificial intelligence, it may be hard to think people still read books. But they do.In
“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, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die If you don’t deeply engage
“Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.” – Jim Rohn (1930 – 2009), influential and motivational speaker When I retired from the U.S. Air Force some years ago, my
“Failure is never final; success is never ending.” – Dr. Robert Schuller, famed TV evangelist In a horse race, the winner wins by a nose. So the difference between success and failure for the second-place horse was a nose.If the second-place horse had persisted and exerted extra effort,
“The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.” – Ben A. Shneiderman, American computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland Have you ever attended a presentation that had so much data in the slides the speaker’s message was utterly lost on you?