I like my accountant. Â Apart from the fact that he smokes, he’s pretty cool. Â If I say to him “How much money do we have?” he gives me a very specific, detailed answer to the […]
I’m looking forward to a workshop with a difference next week – at the 2011 South Tyneside Magic Festival. Â I get to talk to a bunch of magicians about speech, or, more importantly, how to […]
We tweet. Â (@presentations if you want to find us) Â And so far we’ve gathered a little over a thousand followers (not sure how!). Â Some of them are superstars, such as Nancy Duarte, others are normal […]
We’re often told that what we do lends itself to video and so on. Â The people that tell us this are, of course, absolutely right. The thing is, however, that people don’t like being photographed. […]
After a resent presentation we were at together, a dear friend of mine told me Hemingway was the greatest writer in the world, ever. I’ve learned not to argue with her. Â It’s safer that way. […]
Whoahhh… What a week. Â I’ve listened to, or worked ,on presentations on marketing (brilliant) from one of the UK’s top motivational speakers (so-so, too ego-centric) from another of the UK’s top motivational speakers (excellent!) about […]
Last week, my wife and I went to see The King’s Speech. Â It’s a long two hours and by the end you’ve been through the wringer. Â Thanks to some great writing and stunning acting you […]
Let’s pretend we work the standard eight-hour day, from nine in the morning until five o’clock in the afternoon. We want to do more with that than just work. Well, of course we already do […]
Archimedes  is supposed to have said once “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”.  Brave words. Of course it’s not true in […]
You’ll know, as  a much-appreciated reader of this blog, that what we do here (particularly me) is train people in how to make better presentations etc. At meeting after meeting this week (I don’t know […]
I’m doing a couple of sessions at the South Tyneside International Magic Convention in March, and I’m really looking forward to it. Although my Dad was a magician I’m not, so this won’t be as […]
I’ve written a couple of times about how people with a computer-orientated job can improve their ability to talk to people in the ‘real world’. Â (I’m not quite sure what the real world is, but […]
A friend of mine died recently, in the morning. Â We knew it was coming – we’ve known for nine months but it’s still a shock. As my wife and I introduced him and his wife […]