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Two significant public presentations were made yesterday: one by Steve Jobs and one by President Barack Obama. The audience responses were quite different to the two presentations and provide food for thought for how people are responding when you speak. Yesterday morning (Pacific time), Steve Jobs addressed an audience in San Francisco where he announced [...]

If you’re not supposed to discuss religion or politics, I guess I’m likely to upset twice as many people by tackling this question. But the truth is that my opinion is changing, and I’d like to pass that on to those who have heard me discuss this in the past. I’ve summarized my feeling by [...]

I’m delighted to welcome Michael Holmes, author of I Shall Raise Thee Up, as a guest blogger. To be honest, I haven’t been a Trekkie long. So don’t ask me about the time Kirk had dinner with the Klingons and they served Romulan pie! But I was won over after the 2009 version. It was [...]

I was working for a Fortune 500 company, and several of us were sitting in the plush lobby of a Manhattan hotel. We were representing our company at a trade show in New York City, and relaxing together in the evening. The group was mixed in race, and the conversation somehow moved to opportunities to [...]