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Here, then, are six fundamental rules for public speaking: Rule Number One: No matter how inadequate your speaking skills, don't tell your audience.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The importance of Ted Kennedy's letter and goes far beyond sentimentality. The letter was a handoff, and in his speech Obama seemed to accept the baton.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
This was one of the very best Presidential speeches I have ever heard. And more importantly, Barack Obama did everything he needed to do.
Jen Grisanti | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
Presenting is an art. The key to giving a successful presentation is knowing how to tell your story.
John Ridley | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
There's no universally accepted measure for the appropriate amount of political telepromptering, which makes it difficult to do the practical math. Difficult but not impossible.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 03.09.2009 | Entertainment
Both Obama and Marley had the ability to rally people of African descent under the banner of black pride and people of all other races under the banner of unity.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama knows how to get wild, rapturous feedback from crowds. He knows how to set it up -- how to kick up the rhetoric a notch, and the volume a notch -- and how to get a big response.
Vamsee Juluri | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
Obama's mentioning in his inauguration speech of some of the world's great religions can be seen as recognition not just of the people who follow them, but that religion is an immense cultural resource.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
The serene statement delivered yesterday by Barack Obama, with his manner of carefully constructed arguments and invocations to harmony, condemned all the rhetoric to be left in the 20th century.
Charles Kearney | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
Imagine what would happen if I simply got up, picked up a simple black pen, printed the words, "Off with his head," and mailed it to the Obama campaign headquarters, return address included.
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.04.2008 | Living
How was your week? Mine started off with a client meeting, talking with a CEO about what he wanted to see in a speech I'm writing for him. We had a l...
Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
One of the primary Republican attacks against Barack Obama has been that there's not much more to him than being a good speech maker. They're wrong. B...
Simon Sinek | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
In Iraq, the Sunnis and the Shiites don't get along well enough to affect any sort of functional government. America implores them to get work togeth...
John Lundberg | Posted 10.01.2008 | Living
Presidential nomination acceptance speeches surely aim to create great quotes, not to repeat them. So I should have figured that when I went digging ...
Barry Yourgrau | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
Obama stood up to the bitch-slapping bully of Republicanism, man to man, right in the eye. At last, a fighting Democratic candidate!
Chuck Lasker | Posted 09.12.2008 | Home
From a strict foreign policy viewpoint, one candidate came out presidential, and one came out as a war hawk. One candidate was diplomatic, one was gruff and divisive.
David Mixner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
As I recounted in my initial thoughts about the Obama Berlin speech, I recalled that Gandhi said we have to value our words as much as our actions. Obama understands that, and our history has shown it to be true.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In the midst of his presidential campaign, GOP frontrunner Mike Huckabee has continued to accept tens of thousands of dollars in speaking fees primari...
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George Mitrovich | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living