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Finding Your Voice — Part Two

This post is the second of two on finding your voice.   It seems like every other person I meet either announces that they’re a storyteller or tells me that they want to write a book.  So naturally we start talking about the book they want to write, and it almost always falls into one of […]

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Finding Your Voice – Part One

This is the first of two posts on finding your voice as a speaker.  When I was at a low point a couple of months ago, some kindly friends took me out to see a show, Photograph 51, about the X-ray crystallographer, Rosalind Franklin, and her efforts to contribute to the decoding of the molecular […]

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How Good a Speaker Is Joe Biden?

Thanks to the persuasive powers of David Meerman Scott, I decided to take a work day to attend a Vice-President Biden rally in New Hampshire – his first.  One of the advantages of living nearby in Massachusetts is that you can easily get to this political hotspot and back in a day.  David is once […]

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Is Anger Addictive? Is It Worse Online?

Can we actually become addicted to anger?  I’ve posted a number of times about how we seem to be living in an angry era.  And when I was researching my new book, Can You Hear Me? How to Connect with People in a Virtual World, I unearthed lots of evidence that the human connection that […]

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You Think You Have Too Much Email? Wait Until Your Workplace Adds Slack!

The promise of word processing and email was that they were going to bring us friction-free communication and asynchronous convenience.  Friction-free meant we no longer had to totter down to the Post Office, with the envelope, letter, and stamp we had managed somehow to put together in a tidy, first-class threesome and beg the post […]

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Liane Davey Fights the Good Fight

Liane Davey is an old friend and client, one who has proved incredibly skilled at understanding and helping improve the psychology of team dynamics in the workplace.  Her company, which she founded with her husband, is 3COze.  And so I was thrilled to learn of her new book, The Good Fight.  It seemed like a […]

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New Research on How Virtual Communication Is Changing the Workplace

Some recent research on what it’s like to work in a half-face-to-face, half-virtual world arrived too late to be included in Can Your Hear Me? but confirms what I found doing the research for that book in interesting ways. Ranstad US is a recruiting and talent company, and they combined with an HR consultancy, Future […]

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How Can You Make a Technical Subject Interesting?

How can academics and specialist in arcane forms of knowledge take their subject matter and present it to general audiences in a way that’s interesting, without completely caving in to the twin temptations of dumbing down and/or drowning that audience in way too much data because finally someone seemed to be willing to listen? It […]

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You’re One in a Million – How do You Stand Out?

You’re one of a million speakers.  How do you stand out?  Let’s say you’re appearing at one of those enormous, week-long events like Hubspot’s INBOUND.  This year there will be more than 25,000 people and over 250 speakers, if the trends from the last several years continue.  How do you attract an audience and avoid […]

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How Empathetic Are You? The Empathy Quiz Gives Some Clues

I’ve been speaking in Washington DC recently at a variety of government venues, talking about the ideas and research in my new book, Can You Hear Me? How to Connect with People in a Virtual World, published by Harvard in October 2018.   I’ve been both surprised and delighted by the strong response to the basic […]

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