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2 Reasons to Use Numbers in Your Titles; and 2 Reasons to Ignore Anyone Who Does.

As I’m sure many of you do, I get feeds from web-based business news aggregators, like SmartBrief.  What you get on a daily basis is an email with a bunch of headlines and links.  If the headline is sufficiently compelling, … Continue reading

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The Best Ideas Don’t Win, The Best Advocates Do: An Interview With John Daly, Author of Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Results (Part 4)

John Daly, one of the world’s leading communication experts, is the Liddell Centennial Professor of Communication, TCB Professor of Management and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. In Part 1 of the interview, we discussed why … Continue reading

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The Best Ideas Don’t Win, The Best Advocates Do: An Interview With John Daly, Author of “Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Results” (Part 3)

John Daly, one of the world’s leading communication experts, is the Liddell Centennial Professor of Communication, TCB Professor of Management and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. In Part 1 of the interview, we discussed why … Continue reading

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The Best Ideas Don’t Win, the Best Advocates Do: An Interview with John Daly, Author of “Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Results” (Part 2)

John Daly, one of the world’s leading communication experts, is the Liddell Centennial Professor of Communication, TCB Professor of Management and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. In Part 1 of the interview, we discussed why … Continue reading

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Counter-intuitiveness

It was a physics question that got the point across to me. One of those SAT/GRE questions that seems so easy on the surface, but which, even when I got them right, never felt right: Two objects of the same … Continue reading

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Messaging inconsistency is the hobgoblin of ineffective leaders.

I love the actual quote that underpins this discussion. It comes from the American essayist/philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, and it’s a great one: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” … Continue reading

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