STRATEGY CENTRAL

If you give presentations (or preezoes as my friend John calls them), you need to check out this webinar by Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design.  She was "one of the gurus" behind Al Gore’s Inconvient Truth presentation.  Definitely worth taking a look.  You can take a look at it by clicking here. 

I started at San Diego State University as a Business major.  Tried but couldn’t pass their self-starter version of Intermediate Algebra.  Tried three times and dropped it all three times.  Switched to English and the rest is history.  But I never lost interest in the world of business, especially leadership, innovation, strategy and change.  So [...]

Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek has a cool Change This manifesto that would be good reading for a lot of us.  There is a lot in it that will help if you’re finding yourself overwhelmed by email and the need to respond.  You can download it right here. 

While I was at Fellowship of The Woodlands we ran a very frequent membership class.  In the last year that I was there we averaged over 100 per class.  As part of our agenda we regularly asked how people had heard about us.  As a show of hands, we asked how many heard about us [...]

One of the real surprises for me today was the session that Rob Wegner did.  This guy is a great communicator.  One of the things that he talked about that really was helpful was the idea that our messages ought to provide both answers and Questions.  In other words more of a conversation.  Here’s an [...]