By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker, Paul Smith The best lesson I ever learned about financial management came from a guy whose budget I was supposed to keep tabs on. In 1997 I had just taken the job of Finance Manager at manufacturing plant in California. If you’ve ever worked at a high-efficiency plant, you’ll recognize
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By Tekla Perry for IEEE First, in the interests of full disclosure, I should mention that I’m a bit of a Nolan Bushnell fangirl. I met him 30 years ago while writing an article about the birth of video games (he started the whole thing with Atari), and have followed his entrepreneurial adventures (Chuck E.
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By Mike O-Connor for CourierMail THE 12-year-old boy snatched from outside his school in Kuala Lumpur triggered a security crisis which put Rob Redenbach on the next plane to Malaysia. “My client was a Canadian oil and gas company which had a lot of employees who had students at the same school and they wanted
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By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker, Michael Terpin The ubiquity of the outpouring of not just emotion, but communal sharing of that emotion, around the death of Steve Jobs this past week was something not seen on the Internet since the death of Michael Jackson, which is also the last time a single event single-handedly crashed
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By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker, Jill Belconis To all the women out there—you do know that we have an advantage over men if we’re not afraid to show our female traits!! And men, you need to read carefully because you can learn from this and use it your advantage, too. So, what are these gifts women have been given?
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By Harvard Business Review You need to understand people on a somewhat personal level to develop a presentation that resonates with them. But how? Start by asking yourself these questions, and use your answers to tailor your speech: What are they like? Think through a day in the lives of your audience. Reference something that they
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By Diane Schwartz Event season is upon us and there’s no better time to catch up on Facebook, respond to old emails and make some Amazon purchases, right? Of course not. But in this age of short attention spans and social media consumption, the term “face to face meeting” is rather quaint and seemingly optional
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By Forbes. Most people will judge you within the first second of meeting you and their opinion will most likely never change. Making a good first impression is incredibly important, because you only get one shot at it. Princeton University psychologist Alex Todorov and co-author Janine Willis, a student researcher who graduated from Princeton in
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By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker, Dave Logan Rule #1 of communication is to say something in real time about what bugs you. If something another person does bugs you, you’ve got about a week to say something before the issue sinks into your soul and rots. It’s easy to say “communicate in real time,” but
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By Anne Thornley-Brown for Cvent Like many event planners, I travel a lot. I always leave my mobile phone at home. You see, during my 6-1/2 years working for a cellular phone company, I had a close-up view of how easy it is for customers to run up mobile phone bills and end up in
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