The more you give, the more you get - its a cliche, but its really true.
Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today
The greatest communicators have unknowingly used a story pattern. They not only use anecdotes effectively, but their communication followed a persuasive story pattern of tension and release. That tension and release is created by contrasting [what is] with what could be as a structural device.
The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.
Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.
Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.
Ideas need to stand out to be noticed. There is so much noisy information out there that if your message is bland, it won't be heard or acted upon. To avoid obscurity, you need to clash with your environment. Incorporating contrast into your presentation will help it stand out. You create contrast by using the presentation form. For example, you can state the problem, then the solution. State an opposing perspective, then your perspective. State the past, then your picture of the future. Adding the cadence of contrast will pull your idea out of obscurity.
Happiness exist when you don't know a thing
A new restaurant here in Southern California requires women to wear high heels. I'm outraged! This is sexist! Why just the women?
Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.
Life for the living, and rest for the dead!