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That’s Quotable [Guy Kawasaki]
Sep302008 Filed under: Communications Author: tonyGuy 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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Tony Morgan is a pastor and the Chief Strategic Officer at NewSpring Church where he develops creative solutions for communications, technology and NewSpring Ministries--the church's ministry that equips other church leaders.
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anne jackson
September 30th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
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.