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Posted in Information richness

Powerful visuals are indeed worth a thousand words…


Posted in Information richness, International Business, Visuals

Posted in Business history, Information richness

This topic, and the movie, came up in a conversation earlier this week.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine as children do.
It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Taken from the movie Coach Carter, it is an edited version of a poem by Marianne Williamson.


Posted in Persons

In my Business Communication class, I require students to give two (sometimes more) presentations using visuals… without words! Only graphs.
This forces students not to depend on powerpoint as a script and to rediscover -I hope- the power of images.
Logic+Emotion makes the point:
Effective communication is everyone’s job—whether you are trying to sell in a concept or convince a client. Visual Thinking can help us take in complex information and synthesize it into something meaningful. In an increasingly fragmented and cluttered world, simple imagery, metaphors and mindmaps can get people to understand the abstract and make your ideas tangible.

Posted in PowerPoint, Presentation, Visuals

In my Business Communication class, I require students to give two (sometimes more) presentations using visuals… without words! Only graphs.
This forces students not to depend on powerpoint as a script and to rediscover -I hope- the power of images.
Logic+Emotion makes the point:
Effective communication is everyone’s job—whether you are trying to sell in a concept or convince a client. Visual Thinking can help us take in complex information and synthesize it into something meaningful. In an increasingly fragmented and cluttered world, simple imagery, metaphors and mindmaps can get people to understand the abstract and make your ideas tangible.

Posted in PowerPoint, Presentation, Visuals

… until you clarify the parameters.

Posted in Visuals

I.O.U.S.A. is a documentary that explains the national debt. It has been called the Inconvenient Truth of fiscal realities:

The CEPR disagrees with the documentary’s numbers.
David Walker, the former US Comptroller General, on 60 Minutes:

Walker is currently the President of a foundation.
Posted in Business Environment, United States of America

Mali’s slam reminds me of a “random thought” by Louie Schmier that I read many years ago and, obviously, has stayed with me all this time:
I am a teacher. I do far more and far more important things than just instruct in my discipline.
I am a teacher. I am more in the people business than the information business.
I am a teacher. I have a humbling calling, a mission. I have a noble power, an influence, an authority. I have an awesome and heavy responsibility:
I am a teacher: I change the world.
I a

How would you react to this situation?

Thanks “The Business of America is Business: …“
Posted in Comic relief, Job interview

A presentation with written words only. Self-standing and brilliant.
Watch it… and do something!

thanks Rowan.
Posted in Community, Persons, Presentation

On the nature of storytelling and its redeeming power (from an interview with the Screenplayers):
“Storytelling is the primary civilizing instrument in culture,” he said. He then quoted Aristotle: “‘When the storytelling goes bad in society, the result is decadence.’ The way out,” he continued, “is through great storytelling. It sensitizes society to the humanity in other people. Writers of the 21st Century will have to work harder.
On the success of his book and workshops (from a profile in t

Not an endorsement.
I’m on it. It works for me. And it might work for you.

Dick Hardt's Identity 2.0 presentation at OSCON 2005.

Guy Kawasaki presents The Art of the Start at TiECon, May 13, 2006."

... 2007 D5 highlights
Video that played before Bill Gates and Steve Jobs came ...

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