The Winning Voice

In a workshop I conducted for the CEO Institute a year or two ago, one of the CEOs commented that he had been in the audience where a conference speaker started his presentation very well, [...]

In 1998 Linda Stone, former Vice President of Microsoft, coined the term continuous partial attention. Stone is quoted in, Your Brain at Work David Rock’s book, as saying that:  “To pay [...]

Picture this.  You’re walking out of your office and you spy one of your organisation’s senior executives standing in the office lobby area. This person is someone whom you’ve been trying to talk [...]

Picture this.  Imagine you could were standing with your face a couple of centimetres from the largest rock in Australia, which is called Uluru. You look up and are awe struck for several moments [...]

Picture this. . . You’re in a business meeting and we can freeze time at a random moment. Images of every person in the meeting, at that moment, are displayed on a screen in front of the room.  [...]