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Category: Leadership Communications

What Happened to Obama? A Case Study in Storytelling

An opinion piece on Barack Obama – What Happened to Obama? – in the New York Times on Monday is also a magnificent case study in storytelling. It’s a short,
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Want To Get Heard? Say Less

An excellent post by Dawn Lennon from Business Fitness. In particular, her four techniques to say the right thing at the right moment makes it well worth the read. State
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Creative Inspiration: Good Advice

Life and the Cosmos, Word by Painstaking Word (An Interview with Stephen Hawking), by Claudia Dreifus in The New York Times, Science Times There’s so much to like in this
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How To Be An Authentic Speaker

Of all the attributes you bring as a speaker – informally at a status meeting, formally as a conference presenter – which do you think is most important? We debate
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Leadership Is Communications

For the next several weeks, I have the luxury of living at a client’s business school campus. One benefit among many is access to its small but impressive library of
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Adult Play and Creativity

Here are two posts about ‘play’ for adults, particularly in business. On one hand, it’s fairly well-known that play is an important ingredient for adults, both in creative thinking and
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What Makes You Creative? Other People

From Edward Glassman’s book, Team Creativity At Work II: Creative Problem Solving At Its Best, some interesting thoughts in this article on teams and creativity. So specifically what makes you
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Verbal vs Nonverbal Communications

You may not recognise the name, but Albert Mehrabian authored some of the most famous studies in communications research. His most well-known hypothesis: When two people communicate face-to-face, how much
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Managing Creativity in Others … and Yourself

Here are my notes from a presentation I made to the Public Relations Institute of America in September 2009, entitled Stoking Your Creative Streak. I based the presentation on a
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