PM S. Morrison LOSING his COOL

Consider this. He or she who loses their cool – loses.

Leaving aside the value of his policies and views, and scoring Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison against a benchmark of a competent, inspiring, forward-looking, calm-under-pressure leader of state, conveyed through facial expressions, tone of voice, body language and feeling tone- in his 35 minute interview with Waleed Aly last week, I scored Mr. Morrison’s performance as 6.5/10.

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A true story about a missed pitching opportunity

A number of years back, I was in an elevator of a major bank, after finishing a meeting. I was joined in the elevator by two, senior Acknowledgmentbusiness people. A moment or so after the elevator door closed, one of the business people said to the other, “We should have asked for more”. The other retorted, Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.”Continue reading