This morning I’ll be appearing on All Sides with Ann Fisher, a talk radio program broadcast out of Columbus, Ohio. We’ll be talking about the book and taking questions from callers about how to communicate and write more effectively. And you don’t...
I’ve been on Google+ since shortly after it was launched, as have a number of my friends. Most of them, however, don’t post there. Many haven’t even bothered to fill in their profiles. In fact, G+ seems mainly populated right now by people who are...
Bill Clinton was a great communicator. A greater communicator, I think, than THE Great Communicator. As we all well know, he could talk his way into and out of just about anything! But he was not what you would call a concise speaker. His State of the Union addresses...
The reason most business writing is boring is that it demands so little of the reader. That is, it settles for merely conveying information. That’s fine, I suppose, if you’re writing an instruction manual (but even those could use a little more humor and...
I’m not a big fan of traditional business books. I think I got to #4 in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People before bailing. (Maybe that says something about my effectiveness.) So when I set out to write my own book, I was determined to make it the...
If you’re the kind of person who likes to get things done, few things are more frustrating than people who stand in the way of progress. Foot draggers, naysayers, bottlenecks, roadblocks — these are people who come from a place of “no.”...
