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Why "Body Language" Matters for Public Speakers

Mar 14, 2010 5:03pm

I went to an event this week where the keynote speaker simply stood at the podium and read his speech from his notes. It reminded me of a college professor I had during a summer class at the University of North Carolina who walked into the class, opened his notebook,...

On the Job, I Consider Myself

Mar 13, 2010 2:23am

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Never Start a Project You Wouldn't Spend Seven Years On

Mar 11, 2010 10:56pm

I interviewed "Invictus" producer Lori McCreary last night at the Biola Studio Task Force Meeting at CBS Studios. She said something that made a huge impact on me. As the producing partner with Morgan Freeman, she confirmed that they never consider a project that they wouldn't be willing...

Are Political Attitudes Shifting at Major Universities?

Mar 10, 2010 8:26pm

In a new book called "The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University," Louis Menand shares some pretty interesting statistics about changing attitudes at major elite universities in America. In his last chapter, "Why Do Professors All Think Alike?" he tackles the perception that university professors...

Con-Artists Use our Web Habits Against Us

Mar 9, 2010 7:17pm

While most people think the Internet is making everything more democratic, more fair, and easier, I would beg to differ. In Nicholas Carr's landmark 2008 article in The Atlantic, "Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains," he argues the point that the...

Look the World in the Eye: The Road Trip 2010 with Phil & Kathleen

Mar 8, 2010 9:21pm

Somewhere in the DesertOK - so I tweeted that Kathleen and I were driving from Nashville to LA in a pickup truck and we got such a big response, I thought I'd fill you in a bit. At Christmas, we bought our daughter a used Prius, so she needed...

Maggie Cooke: 2003-2010

Mar 7, 2010 4:09pm

This past week, Kathleen and I went on a "road trip" - something we haven't done since college. I'll write about the trip tomorrow, but the sad news was that as we were driving home, our housesitter called to tell us that our dog Maggie had died in the...

Strategic Planning Versus Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Mar 4, 2010 1:08pm

During the current recession, companies have discovered that in a chaotic, disrupted business environment, business plans don't always work. As the market changed with lightening speed, marketing plans were tossed out the window in favor of being more nimble. Walt Shill, head of North American management consultant Accenture...

When Passion, Not Money Drives Performance

Mar 3, 2010 6:06am

This week, our daughter Bailey took us out to The Station Inn in downtown Nashville. It's a bare bones local music venue, but one with a great history. On Monday night's the group "The Time Jumpers" play classic country music - mostly Western Swing, and the great thing...

Perception Matters, Even With UFO's

Mar 2, 2010 6:16am

Recently released UFO records from the British government confirm the power of perception. If you study how people's UFO reports have changed over time, you'll note that in the 1940's and 1950's people reported UFO's as "flying discs" or "flying saucers." At the same time, the popular Hollywood...