Tell better stories

Ever tried to sell, persuade or teach and noticed your audience’s eyes glazing over? Perhaps you were in the audience and the presenter had just clicked on to the fortieth slide, you know the one I mean, the one with about twelve bullet points and a triple bar graph...

Teach me – tell a story

You know those kids at school who didn’t have to work and got an A+, well I was the kid who had to work really hard for my D-. In our school if you weren’t good academically you had one other way to redeem yourself: sport. Unfortunately I had the eye-hand coordination...

Recession-Proof your head

Earlier this year I started to feel business slip and then I saw that word in the papers – RECESSION! Looking at my mortgage payment I took in a deep breath and thought about two restaurant owners, John and Bill. John goes to a hospitality conference. Bill can’t make...

The death of steve jobs

Death inspires the quest. Justin Cohen     1) The death of Steve Jobs.      2) How copper could save your life.     The death of Steve Jobs   A few weeks ago Apple briefly became the world’s most valuable company. It continues to be one of the...

The true meaning of passion

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. E. M. Forster   We talk a lot about passion in the corporate world. If you want to get ahead you’ve got to be passionate. But assuming we’re not talking about more office romance, what does...

Love your problems

Life is a series of problems:  you are in one now, you’re just coming out of one, or you’re getting ready to go into another one. Rick Warren   In this week’s edition:           1) Love your problems          2) Interview on 3Talk about my...
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