I’m in the Charles Pearson Theatre at the University of Melbourne, watching 12 short speeches. It’s a 3 minute speech competition called the 3 minute Thesis. These annual, 3 minute speech competitions challenge Ph.D and Masters students to effectively communicate 3-1/2 years’ of technical research into a short speech. Their task is to convey only the most important…
Great leaders, like Gandhi, are associated with great leadership messages.This is no coincidence. Vivid messages help position people as great leaders. Richard Branson, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Anita Roddick, Steve Waugh, Janine Allis and Howard Schultz are examples of this. This article focuses on Mohandas Gandhi who changed the world with his ‘non…
I love writing about Steve Jobs and his incredible communication skills. And this Ashton Kutcher speech let’s me do it again. For example, How Steve Jobs’ messaging changed the world, Steve Jobs top 5 leadership messages and particularly the speech outline of his famous Stanford graduation speech. Jobs’ ability to leverage message and structure helped Apple…
Great leaders like founder of The Body Shop Anita Roddick are associated with great leadership messages.This is no coincidence! Vivid messages help position people as great leaders. Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Steve Waugh, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson and Janine Allis are examples of this. The story of The Body Shop is fascinating. Anita Roddick…