June 7, 2007
While you have their attention, get to the point. The “ah-ha” moment. Connect them with what you’re doing and why it matters, preferably on an emotional or visceral level.The winner of a May Entrepreneur Idol pitching contest at Stanford swats it out of the park: Linus Liang, 25, a first-year graduate student in computer science, [...]
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May 30, 2007
Top meeting frustration? Keep motormouths idle (print subscription required). Boston Business Journal reports Opinion Research USA’s findings about what makes meetings suck: disorganized, rambling meetings interruptions cell phones BBJ readers express peeves from motormouths to disorganized meeting leaders, all amounting to “wasted time”. Every word you speak in a meeting is a presentation. The art [...]
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