by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Apr 4, 2017
Which of the following warnings would send you running for the hills? “The California Department of Water Resources says flows into lake Oroville are just under 45,000 cubic feet per second. Outflows remain high at nearly 100,000 cubic feet per second. If the top 30...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Apr 3, 2017
Facing the camera on CNBC or sitting across from reporters at The Wall Street Journal can be intimidating for even the most seasoned business leaders. The methods used to coach executives for high-stakes media appearances can easily be adapted to a job interview...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Apr 3, 2017
The New York Times and CB Insights partnered this week to publish a list of the top 20 “winningest” venture capitalists in the world. I’ve personally interviewed some of the investors who made the New York Times list and I’ve followed the others. Seven of...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Mar 31, 2017
Condense your key message to 140 characters or less and it’s more likely to stick. “If you can’t fit your idea on the back of an envelope, it’s rubbish,” Richard Branson once told me. The Virgin Group founder is on to something. In fact,...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Mar 27, 2017
Storytelling in business presentations is more likely to move audiences to action. Thanks to advances in neuroscience, brain scans, and data-driven studies, we’ve learned more about persuasion in the past decade than we had ever known previously. We know what...
