by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 24, 2017
If your pitch can’t fit in this format, don’t bother pitching the Virgin billionaire. The spark that created one of the fastest growing companies in Richard Branson’s Virgin empire came courtesy of a beer coaster. In his new autobiography, Finding My...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 19, 2017
When a speech or presentation doesn’t go according to plan, there are some simple tips to avert a fiasco. We’ve all been there. You’re giving an important presentation and ‘stuff’ happens: A technical glitch, a cough, an interruption. The...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 6, 2017
On my first day of journalism school, I learned to ask the single most important question of good writing. It’s the question that every reader and every television news viewer has on their mind: Why? The question can take several forms, depending on the context:...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 4, 2017
If you want to make an impact in business, tell emotionally engaging stories. If you want to make an impact in your profession and stand out from your competitors, tell more stories–and not just any story, but emotionally engaging ones. If you’re stuck on...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Sep 25, 2017
People who can do this are winners; those who can’t are losers, according to the world’s most influential hedge fund entrepreneur. Billionaire Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater, one of the world’s largest and best performing hedge funds. A true...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Sep 12, 2017
Here’s how one company learned to market a complex product, simply. Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform, helped one company save $11.2 million a year. A large winery used Watson to reduce its water use by 25 percent. For doctors, Watson can...
