One of the great by-products of the Olympics is learning  about the history and culture of the host country. This year’s Olympic games in London, England are no exception. While learning about the United Kingdom was mandatory in my high school history classes (given the early ties between England and U.S.), But these aren’t your ordinary docents. MORE >>

There are more than 10,000 athletes competing in the 2012 London Olympics. Most will go back to subsistence living or very low paying jobs after the games conclude. Only a handful will be able to parlay short-term athletic success into true long-term financial prosperity. Here are the secrets: 1. Don’t win bronze or silver. Be good looking. MORE >>

English majors among us remember the Age of Romanticism.    Both on the continent and in England, poets, political leaders and clergy encouraged ordinary people to express themselves and break free of tyranny of all kinds.  Recently, beginning around 2004, we had been living through another romantic era.  MORE >>

What do you want the impact of our presentation to be? That impact is not an accidental by-product of what you say and do. It is not something that occurs by chance, or through luck. It is something you create deliberately.  So So before you think about what you will say and what you will do, you need to define what it is that you want to create. MORE >>

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