By Rob Symonds
Thumbing through a copy of Revolutionizing IT: The Art of Using Information Technology Effectively, one thing was singled out as a core principle and repeated a couple of times:
A modest number of outstanding people are more valuable than a large number of average ones.
By Rob Symonds
Directors cut good scenes to make a great movie. Musicians drop good tracks to make a great album. Writers eliminate good pages to make a book great.
—Books: Rework, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson – Service Industries – Management Today
By Rob Symonds
The first speech you give when you join Toastmasters is called The Icebreaker. It’s designed to ease you into public speaking. The assignment is to speak for 4 – 6 minutes about yourself.
Creating the speech was more challenging than I thought it would be. But the writing was fun and so was delivering it.
Here is The Icebreaker I gave tonight. [Read more…] about My Toastmasters Icebreaker Speech