This is the first post of the relaunched Sharp Innovation Solutions blog with a totally new theme. Unexpectedly this has been a long time coming because what was once easy became very difficult. Previously I could control all the design parameters for all aspects of the theme especially the header layout. This was way ahead of every […]
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What better source for how to make a toast than the Toastmaster magazine for communicators and leaders which had an article Here’s to Toasting! in December 2017 issue. Paul Dickson, who is referenced in the article, is a freelance writer of more than 65 non-fiction books, mostly on American English language and popular culture. He
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Summary This article is a summary of a classic by the father of modern business management Peter Drucker on the need to test business model assumptions. In the source article IBM and GM are used as examples of the need to refresh the “Theory of the Businessâ€. The Central Challenge – “what to do†is
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I really like this quote about personal leadership because it helps us to keep the focus on our human endowments: “In his book, First Things First, Stephen Covey notes that the development of what he calls our four human endowments: self-awareness, conscience, independent will, and creative imagination is at the core of personal leadership. It
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Pat Flynn on the Smart Passive Income blog provides 33 tips for public speaking in a 38 minute video. I like his suggestion about mingling with the audience to understand them better before the presentation. I don’t like his suggestion to start things off by showing a video because your presence right from the start
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Darren Hardy, publisher of Success magazine, has provided a concise article on the 6 preparation rituals he uses to achieve success in his presentations. These rituals are for preparing to perform a completed presentation and not a process used to develop the presentation which is another topic that will be covered in my blog. I
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99u, byline Insights for Making Things Happen, is a very worthwhile site for actionable improvements and today it had an insightful article on The Craftman’s Guide for Working with Dignity.The 99u article makes a good case for why craftsmanship and dignity are so important in work and life. It encourages people to think about what
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One of the ongoing innovations in web design is support for higher quality and more variety in web fonts and better typography in general. Jason Santa Maria has recently published a book “On Web Typography†in the A Book Apart series on web design. One of the topics is using proper characters like smart quotes
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Good quote by inessential.com about social media The things that will last on the internet are not owned. Plain old websites, blogs, RSS, irc, email. The Internet is still young so the longevity of some online services is yet to be seen. Personally I am hoping that some of the business models especially those that
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I was the toastmaster emcee at the Orléans Raconteurs meeting on Tuesday August 5 (2014) and there was an opening for another speaker so I decided to add a “mystery” speaker. I have been working through the competent communicator manual (for the second time) and the next project on my list was project 5 “Your
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