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2020 Foresight: Is Much of your Big Data Lost in Presentation?

If the 2010s were the decade of cloud computing and big data, the 2020s will see a torrential downpour. Already more than 20 billion IoT devices are contributing data. Smart cities will add to that, as will Enterprise Content Management and Machine Learning. These will threaten to drown business leaders that have to derive insights and plan strategies based on veritable oceans of data.

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Why Teaching MBA Students Presentation Skills is Easier said than Done

My clients for media skills and executive presence training are almost exclusively senior business and government leaders. But when National University of Singapore asked me a few years ago to coach their top MBA students, I accepted. The opportunity to contribute to the development of future business and government leaders was too good to pass up.

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Success or Failure is Not a Show-Stopper

You need to have the courage to keep moving. We are so fond of instant gratification, that we get discouraged when we don’t see immediate success. But what I believe is that whether it’s success or failure, it should not be a show-stopper. You should keep putting effort to get things to the next level. Overnight success is a thing but it doesn’t happen as often as we expect. 

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2020 Foresight: Can You Prove Your CEO Didn’t Say This?

Read the headline again. Isn’t it crazy that in the 2020s your corporate communications team is going to have to grapple with such strange media enquiries.

5 years

2020 Foresight: Climate Change Will Force Companies to Switch to Live Webcasts

You only need to look to Greenland’s melting glaciers, or the increased severity of storms, to know climate change is already upon us. All we can hope for in the 2020s is to stop it getting worse, or to adjust to its impact.

5 years

"Before I Start"​ Well, You've Already Started, So Just Get on With it!

Please can we retire "Before I start" from keynote presenters' vocabularies.

5 years

How to Write a Modern Resume

I think it was Sherlock Holmes who said that there is no such thing as coincidence (but then he also said that the answer is never about twins!!).

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