A good speech is one that you deliver in your own voice. A good speechwriter can capture your voice, but only if: (a) We can hear you talk unscripted using the lingo you would use in the speech – i.e. I need to hear you in a meeting if it’s a work speech. I need
In the acknowledgments of The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry, author Kathleen Flinn thanks Gillian Kent who “eliminated my job in London, and I’d like to thank her for that. It’s one of the best thing that ever happened to me.” This book is written by Flinn, a journalist who was fired from
My never-ending quest to understand the world around me – and my love of a good story – led me to read the Freakonomics sequel, Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. I liked the first one much better. I’m not sure if it’s because the first one was actually better or
