Did you believe the messenger? My analysis of the Optus CEO’s response to the outage

Against the benchmark of a credible, believable, self-assured CEO of a major enterprise in a media regarding a significant crisis – conveyed through their affect, body language, speech and words – I scored Kelly Bayer-Rosmarin’s performance in her 8 September, six minute Australian Broadcast Corporation TV interview with presenter Joe O’Brien as: 6.5/10.

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Obama’s SPEECH at 2020 DNC, Deconstructed

Once again Barack Obama gave a pitch-perfect, luminary presentation at the 2020 United Stage Democratic National Convention.

Overall, Obama’s most powerful channel was not his words, cadence, voice or body language. But his feeling tone.

It was a feeling tone that conveyed deep concern, sadness, pain, frustration and hope.

Here is analysis of certain segments of the presentation:

2:04 – 2:10 minute mark:  Use of the literary technique of ellipsis; ‘…marched for, went to jail for, fought for and died for’

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