Guy Kawasaki, co-founder of Alltop.com, as quoted in Entrepreneur Magazine (October 2008)
“Many speech coaches will disagree, but the goal of a speech is to entertain the audience. If people are entertained, you can slip in a few nuggets of information. But if your speech is dull, no amount of information will make it great. If I had to pick between entertaining and informing an audience, I would pick entertaining, knowing that informing will probably happen, too.”
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i must have been a speech coach in a former life. :)
not that i disagree, entirely…but my thought is to simply be yourself. then have faith your message will be heard by the right people who need to hear it…whether you’re dull or not.
and to define dullness? well, that could be subjective.