PowerPoint Kills

I love to hate PowerPoint…when I teach Public Speaking and host conferences people often discuss how many wordy slides to include in a forty five minute speech. The answer of course is “none – and why are you speaking for that long?”” and now the excellent Edward Tufte has argued persuasively that reliance on PowerPoint was a factor in the Space Shuttle disaster thanks to dotpolka for the photo

Innovation Leadership

I am giving a talk on the 30th November at this event in London It has been put together by the inspiring Professor Bettina von Stamm. She has taken as the starting point the award winning article (and now book) “Why should anyone be led by you?” by Professors Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones. Rod has been helping put it together. We’ll be working on what exactly makes a good leader: Reveal your weaknesses, Become a sensor, Practice tough empathy and my favourite – Dare to be different It’s getting booked rapidly as they are keeping the numbers low to allow more participation from delegates.

Presenter The Knives Are Out live tonight

Yates of the Yard wears a tinfoil hat for good reasons, Libdems Ring the Liberty Bell, The Return of Hils Barker, Recess Slags off the Evil Guido, Guido has a Bring Your Daughter to Work Day…

Trevor Horn

Last week I got a call from the legendary record producer Trevor Horn – so of course I dropped everything, went to his studios and recorded some Jew’s Harp for a single called Sun Goes Down by David Jordan

Hot political gossip show needs intern Producer/Publicist

…do you have four or five hours a week? This is the 30 minute live and scurrillous political gossip show that I present every Tuesday night on Resonance 104.4FM (as Westminster prepares itself for the bearpit of Prime Minister’s Questions the next day). My regular guests are the two top political bloggers Guido Fawkes (libertarian right winger) and Recess Monkey (Labour left) who are total media tarts and excellent performers. Last week we were joined by Sian Berry – principal speaker of the Green Party – and the week before that the Tory London Mayoral candidate who wants to abolish the London Mayor. It’s a funny and informative show – we cut through the polite BBC nonsense. We talk about the rumours and backstabbing that actually determines how our country is run. Who’s up, who’s down and who’s getting shafted. If you only listen to the BBC you aren’t getting half the picture. if you like the sound of it and you want something real on your CV then get in touch asap… We need someone who can coordinate our other volunteers (professional sound engineers/editors and helpers). Someone who can help us get guests, look after them and say thanks afterwards, someone to listen live to the show in the studio (Soho) and help us write a publicity paragraph, keep in touch with the newspaper reviewers and take charge of the podcasting (we are already listed on iTunes) and keep our blog lively and help encourage listener feedback via email and our rantline 09013931044.. someone with confidence, competence and a flair for publicity. Resonance is a community station so no one gets paid…

New website

Many thanks to Chris Wach for setting up my original website all those years ago…without whom it would never have happened. And thanks to Natasha Joiner for lovely images and designs too. And now there’s been a revamp and a move to a new server…many thanks to Jon McBain for sorting that out and making it look shiny. And welcome to the new site – leave a comment if you cannot find what you are looking for (you can use the search bar as well)