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Get-tough tips for beleaguered commencement speakers
It’s the season for speakers. CEOs, celebrities and politicians are all putting finishing touches on commencement addresses for colleges across the country. But if the run up to graduation day is any...
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The most talked-about speeches of 2014
They can be funny, or inspiring, or go straight for the heartstrings, but the one thing the year's best speeches have in common is that, once they turned up on YouTube, people around the world tuned in...
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One man’s crusade to banish business buzzwords
If the last email a colleague sent to you talked about mission-critical, blue sky thinking on actionable ways to build bandwidth (the human kind), and, net net, the author thinks he or she nailed it by...
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Bernanke faces harsh words at hedge fund conference
Given what Ben Bernanke has been called by hedge fund managers in the past, you would have thought he would have come to SALT, the giant hedge fund conference in Las Vegas, with a very large body...
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Speech inflation: Why Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and others get massive...
In just under two years, President Obama will be out of office, leaving the White House and giving way for another politician to start taking flak. What, pray tell, will he do with all that free time?...
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Why your boss wants you to join Toastmasters
If you take a stroll around Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta and peek into people's offices, you'll notice that some of the walls are festooned with silver-embossed blue ribbons. Charles Miller, for...
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Here’s what Carly Fiorina’s team’s speech requirements were at HP
Carly Fiorina’s campaign for president has been based largely on her experience as an executive, with her argument basically being that her experience as CEO of Hewlett-Packard has prepared her to be...
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Bernie Sanders Just Addressed the Biggest Question of his Campaign
In a speech on Thursday at Georgetown University, presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders addressed the biggest question that has dogged his campaign since its start: what exactly is the “democratic...
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6 Ways to Be a Better Speaker in 2016
The next time you have to speak in front of a group, give some thought ahead of time to "what success would look like," says Bill McGowan. Most people are so anxious to get a formal presentation over...
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Here’s How Much the Clintons Earn From Paid Speeches
One of the major attacks Bernie Sanders has used against Hillary Clinton during this campaign season has been her close ties to Wall Street, singling out in particular her having given many speeches to...
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Which Donald Trump Will Show Up Tuesday Night?
Maybe he’ll just tell knock-knock jokes. Okay, so Donald Trump probably won’t speak in riddles after the Indiana primary on Tuesday evening, but that’s just about the only thing that we can rule out....
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Hillary Clinton Is Letting Donald Trump Do the Work for Her
In a typical presidential race, candidates go back and forth attacking each other, with both sides alert to attacks that merit a response. Sometimes it seems like opponents are engaging in a constant...
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Melania Trump and the Long History of Political Plagiarism
They say that talent borrows, but genius steals. While it might be a stretch to call Melania Trump a genius, she certainly is in good company when it comes to speakers at political events digging a bit...
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Who Is Dana White and Why Is He Speaking at the Republican Convention?
The speaker list for Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention has been a bit different from past political conventions. Actors like Scott Baio spoke on Monday night. And on Tuesday, we will hear...
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Tim Kaine Will Need to Ease Sanders Supporters’ Concerns at Democratic...
When Hillary Clinton announced last week that she had selected Senator Tim Kaine to be her vice presidential running mate, the reaction was fairly muted. The consensus was that Kaine was a safe pick,...
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How a Company That Started in a Closet Landed Ronald Reagan as a Client
To say Bernie Swain created his speakers agency off-the-cuff would be an understatement. He nurtured it from the closet of a friend's office, in 1980, with no plan and no understanding of the...
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