April 23rd, 2023
“If you don’t practice, you don’t deserve to win.” – Andre Agassi, Legendary Tennis Star Remember when you were a kid, and your mom made you take piano, violin, or guitar lessons? Your music teacher told you to practice for…

April 16th, 2023
“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Great Britain Last Tuesday, I was contacted by someone I worked with forty (40) years ago. He is now a business…

April 9th, 2023
“The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet With computers, the Internet, and artificial…

April 2nd, 2023
“To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from “What information do I need to convey?” to “What questions do I want my audience to ask?” – Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others…

March 26th, 2023
“Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.” – Jim Rohn (1930 – 2009), influential and motivational speaker When I retired…

March 19th, 2023
“Failure is never final; success is never ending.” – Dr. Robert Schuller, famed TV evangelist In a horse race, the winner wins by a nose. So the difference between success and failure for the second-place horse was a nose. If…

March 12th, 2023
“The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.” – Ben A. Shneiderman, American computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland Have you ever attended a presentation that had so much…

March 5th, 2023
“Designing a presentation without an audience in mind is like writing a love letter and addressing it ‘to whom it may concern.’” – Ken Haemer, an expert in presentation design For those who are regular readers of these articles,…