Acting and Performance, Public Speaking
What does it mean to be in your head? What follows is one of the most important and fascinating lessons I’ve ever learned about performance. Any kind of performance. In his compilation book What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell re-publishes his New Yorker article,...
Johnstone - Status Transactions, Leadership
“Toughness” is an adjective that gets thrown around a great deal, particularly in politics. Many public figures go out of their way to associate themselves with “tough,” “independent” stances and hard-line foreign policy, and each...
Leadership, Cialdini - Weapons of Influence
The Hay Group is a management consulting firm that does its own research into motivation strategies and produces self-assessment materials for students and clients. I recently took one of their assessments for an MBA class on leadership strategies. The assessment was...