Welcome to the Chinese New Year of the Dog, which dawned (or dawns, if you're the efficient type who plans ahead) on February 16th 2018 and runs right through to February 4th 2019. It's a fresh start and there's a brand new energy in the air – so what will…
Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo to Palestinian parents on the 24th of August 1929, the fifth son of a businessman. Arafat is the place of a holy shrine near Mecca and was the name given to the boy to show his Islamic piety. The name Yasser was his family…
Telecommunications progressed from telegraph to telephone, from copper wires to fiber-optics, from analog to digital, from wireless to satellite. I believe the industry will change more in the next five to 10 years than it has in the last 50. Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO of GM * The future…
The fourth and final teaching style that was identified, unequivocally, as the most effective was labelled authoritative. Layard and Dunn found that the central components of an effective learning environment was one where the teacher had complete control with a clear demonstration of warmth. Students knew what they had to…
Read Chapter 1 - The Relationship Coach - from The Future Coach, by Tom Bates here... * I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou * Seeing the world through the…
The origins of self-help books are rooted in the Philanthropy, and Classical Liberalism, of Victorian Britain, beginning with the publication of “Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct” in 1859. Samuel Smiles, the author, was inspired by the belief that progressive social causes were best advanced by individual self-improvement. The…
We have looked at slide design in general but, to finish this chapter, I want to look more closely at what the main component of these slides should be. Pictures! What really brought this home to me was a set of presentations I attended, two years ago, given by a…
I have three simple rules for what to put on PowerPoint slides. 1. Use images, not text. 2. Show one thing at a time. 3. Make items full-screen if possible. Images not text. I have talked about this point, already. Text is not a visual aid. Period. But you may…
Reading off the Slides | The Problem I could show you many examples but do I really need to? We have all experienced this problem, probably hundreds of times. People fill slide after slide with bullet points and then read them out, one by one. You know you’re in trouble…
In about the middle of December ‘68, down on Santa Monica Boulevard, Jim Morrison was slumped in a chair with his feet up, reading November’s edition of the west coast activist magazine Ramparts. Life had been bugging him lately. I mean, what a year!?! On the face of it The…