Carmine Gallo

Recent Articles by Carmine Gallo

September 29, 2009

Steve Jobs' Presentation Secrets: Fifteen Strategies You Can Employ Now

Borrow strategies from one of the world's best business communicators

September 22, 2009

Your Next Presentation Should Borrow from Broadway

On a recent trip to New York City, I was walking down Broadway just as thousands of people were pouring out of the theaters. They were smiling, laughing, and talking ...

September 8, 2009

Borrow from Home Depot's 'Free' Expertise Strategy

Several years ago I trained Home Depot (HD) employees who were designated television spokespeople in their local cities. The company knew that the key to garnering ...

August 25, 2009

How to Give a Lousy Presentation

Giving truly great presentations requires skill, work, and practice. Giving catastrophic presentations is far easier. So if you want to take the easy way out and look ...

August 11, 2009

Get Personal with Your Audience

Layoffs, scandals, and scams are taking their toll on employees' trust and customers' trust of businesses large and small. But with every presentation, business ...

August 4, 2009

What Matters Most in Any Presentation

Last month the New York Times ran a front-page story on the health-care debate. The first two sentences read: "What's in it for me? On the subject of health-care ...

July 14, 2009

Unleash Your Inner Larry King

CNN's Larry King is the consummate interviewer because he listens more than he talks, asks smart questions, and comes across as genuinely interested in people. ...

July 7, 2009

Don't Let Poor Delivery Sabotage Your Pitch

Since 2004, angel investor and Chapman University entrepreneurship professor Richard Sudek has been conducting a series of classroom experiments on the effectiveness ...

June 30, 2009

'Let Me Tell You a Story'

During a business trip in Reno, Mario Moretti Polegato took a walk in the Nevada desert. His feet began to hurt in his rubber-soled shoes, so he took out a pocket ...

June 24, 2009

An Inspiring Leader Is an Optimistic One

Sir Winston Churchill delivered the ultimate pep talk to the world in his first speech as British Prime Minister on June 4, 1940. France had just fallen to Hitler's ...