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April 5, 2010 by Pearl
At the beginning of this mini-blog series, you read about how the Less is More principle affects store-front product displays, and how it relates to presentations. Now let’s take a look at how this concept applies to the tech world. There are more than 150,000 applications and counting available to iPhone users today. How many of these apps are actually found and eventually utilized by an end-user? If you look at a teenager’s iPhone, you are likely to see screen after screen studded with apps. But according to a recent New York Times article “When Phones Are Just
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April 2, 2010 by Jerry
The iPad will finally be available to the public tomorrow. Ever since its launch in January, the media and public have been buzzing about its potential to become a disruptive force in publishing, entertainment, education, and even computing. Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal agrees, “I believe this beautiful new touch-screen device from Apple has the potential to change portable computing profoundly, and to challenge the primacy of the laptop.” The buzz for the iPad was fueled in large part by the colossal success of its smaller predecessor, the iPhone. In fact, you can consider the iPad the
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March 26, 2010 by Jerry
Jim Holt, an author in his own right, also reviews books for New Yorker magazine and the New York Times. In his review of a current publication, Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience, by Stephen S. Hall, Mr. Holt found Mr. Hall’s book “oddly rewarding” but his style irritating. Mr. Holt critiques from a position of some authority. He was bold enough to take on Henry Watson Fowler (1858 to 1933), the author of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, a 1926 book that has come to be considered a bible in the literary world. Mr. Holt noted that, “among
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March 24, 2010 by Pearl
In a prior blog, you read about how the Less is More approach applies to store-front product placement, and how it also relates to presentations. Now let’s take a look at how this concept applies to a popular chain of grocery stores. Established in 1958 as a small chain of convenience stores, Trader Joe’s has expanded to 339 stores in 25 states. Much of its success is based upon their low prices. A recent episode of Food Network’s Unwrapped discussed how Trader Joe’s is able to offer high quality goods at such low prices. Marc Summer, the show’s host
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March 17, 2010 by Jerry
As readers of the prior post saw, one of the most common and pervasive maladies known to humankind is the fear of public speaking. Even professional performers have stage fright. Actor Sir Laurence Olivier, singer Carly Simon, pianist Glenn Gould, jazz musician Benny Goodman, choreographer Jerome Robbins and actor-director Orson Welles all experienced nervousness about their appearances in public. The anxiety heightens when performers step out of their professional roles and appear as themselves. Witness the Oscar award ceremonies. In the high pressure circumstances of the primetime live broadcast last week, almost every one of the actors had the
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March 10, 2010 by Jerry
One of the most commonly held misconceptions about public speaking is that good speakers are born that way. Meaning, in the lyrics of a song from the classic Stephen Sondheim musical, Gypsy, that “Ya’ either got it, or ya’ ain’t.” If any speaker were to accept this false belief, he or she would never be able to change—and presentation coaches would be out of business. I’m pleased to report that the presentation trade is alive and well, and is so primarily due to the pervasiveness of one of the most common maladies known to humankind: the fear of public
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March 8, 2010 by Nichole
It appears that our website redesign will take longer than we anticipated. As a result, we will resume blogging at a reduced schedule beginning Wednesday, and at least once a week thereafter. We welcome your comments and suggestions
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March 5, 2010 by Pearl
This Dilbert cartoon has been making the rounds on all the presentation blogs, so here it is for our readers. The reason for its popularity is, sadly, it is so true.
February 26, 2010 by Jerry
“You are what you eat,” a phrase that has become commonplace in today’s lexicon, actually came into being in the 19th Century. In 1825, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a French lawyer, magistrate, and politician, published The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, in which he wrote, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Over time, Monsieur Brillat-Savarin’s treatise on cooking and eating has become a bible for foodies, and his phrase, in its shorter form, a slogan for dieticians. Brillat-Savarin’s modern counterpart, food guru Michael Pollan, the author of the bestselling Omnivore’s
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February 24, 2010 by Jerry
On the occasion of the submission of his 2011 budget, President Obama assembled his economic team to join him during his speech. In the official White House photograph, the president is flanked left to right, by Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Larry Summers, National Economic Council Director. You’ll note that all of them are standing with their hands clasped in front of them, in what is known in the presentation trade as “The Fig Leaf.” In the Power
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