by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Sep 21, 2012
If you want to learn how to command the attention of an audience, take a lesson from Marc Benioff’s keynote at DreamForce 2012. During his Wednesday keynote to kick off the conference in San Francisco, the salesforce.com CEO rarely stayed on the stage. Instead he...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Sep 20, 2012
J.C. Penney CEO, Ron Johnson, has seen the movie before and he loves the way it ends. You know which movie we’re talking about—the one about the underdog who nobody believes in. In 2001, the protagonist was played by the Apple Store with Ron Johnson as its director....
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Sep 14, 2012
Apple CEO Tim Cook was the first to appear on stage for the launch of the new iPhone on Wednesday, September 12, but he was far from the only person to speak. Eleven other individuals—Apple executives, partners, and developers—shared the stage in person or on video....
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Sep 14, 2012
Don’t blame PowerPoint for a boring presentation. The problem with today’s typical business presentation is NOT PowerPoint. The storyteller is the problem, the presenter who creates wordy, text-heavy slides and uses dull, convoluted jargon and buzzwords. In a previous...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Sep 14, 2012
The next time you deliver a PowerPoint presentation that matters—a product launch, investor pitch, new client meeting— take a cue from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and ditch the bullet points. When Bezos unveiled the all-new new Kindle Fire HD this week, his presentation...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Sep 6, 2012
Twenty-five years ago Santa Clara University Professors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner wrote The Leadership Challenge, a primer on how to make extraordinary things happen in organizations by helping leaders perform their personal best. Two million copies have been sold...
