Business Two Zero

Last week I warned you that you should attend Guy Kawasaki’s presentation on the Art of Innovation on the first day of the Microsoft 5 day Small Business Summit at Redmond starting yesterday. You could have booked and attended live and online. Did you miss it? If you did, a recording will be posted on […]

Microsoft are hosting a 5 day Small Business Summit at Redmond from March 19 onwards. Forget the airfare, I think you should make time and attend. It’s free, but more importantly, you won’t need to travel and you can pick and chose which presentations you want to listen to. All of the sessions are available […]

Several conversations and posts have connected together for me over the last few weeks around things that would help your website or blog.  The Social Media Collective were discussing the quality of User-generated Content, and at one point Jerry Bowles said: “I believe that every blogger and writer, heck, every human being, […]

Why should we be conforming to a physical device to interact with the computer?  Why should the interface be tied to a keyboard that comes from a typewriter keyboard designed in 1874, and a mouse concept from the 1960s and 70s?  These questions are addressed in a rather dramatic way by Jeff Han.  Jeff […]

Here’s a piece where my interest in politics, my love of films and writing about the business of presentation intersects.  I’ve been away on holiday in France for a couple of weeks and one of the things in the huge pile of mail was my Empire magazine.  Flicking through it I found their review of […]

Several things came together to trigger this post on the topic of presentations.  I was talking about it with two colleagues today.  One of them is heading for a presentation course to improve his technique tomorrow, and the other was berating the use of PowerPoints.  The course in question is the kind of thing […]

My wife told me about some interesting inaccuracies in somebody’s CV this week.  They weren’t anywhere near the accuracy issues for the former RadioShack Corp. Chief Executive Dave Edmondson, who resigned last Monday following questions about his resume’s “mistakes”.  Apparently he invented a couple of degrees he hadn’t received.  He’d obviously done a good enough job […]

There are two good pieces you should read on Garr Reynolds’ Presentation Zen.  The first is some excellent advice on how to keep cool when under fire in a presentation.  He says: “Doing our homework and anticipating questions or “push-back” is crucial. But when the unexpected does happen, good general […]

I don’t see enough passion in business these days.  I was talking to an old business colleague today, and we were discussing a company we both used to work for, and we were bemoaning the fact that they don’t have a clear product strategy that’s voiced with passion by the man at the top.  I […]

 
Just before Christmas I attended a customer briefing with one of our business partners, who were explaining their revised product strategy and other issues for that client.  The ideas and information exchanged were all great, but the PowerPoint slides were unreadable.  They would have been excellent as a supporting handout, but most people in the room couldn’t […]