Visionary Clarity

The Key to Demonstrating Authority

When you’re preparing for a presentation, whether it’s a quarterly earnings call, an internal announcement, or a college commencement speech, you’re focused on coming across as the utmost authority on your topic. You want to look and sound in control, assuring your audience that you know what you’re talking about and have the experience, power,…

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Identifying Org Trends

3 Ways Behavioral Analytics Will Transform Learning and Development

Research has found the overwhelming majority of executives and learning and development professionals, not to mention employees, value ongoing professional development. And topping the list of priorities? Communication. Up to 80 percent of professional activity is grounded in communication, and those skills drive success across every department and initiative.

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Snap Video

Do IPO Videos Work? An Analysis of Snap’s Roadshow Video

As Snap, Inc. prepared for its IPO last month, it bucked old-school roadshow traditions by releasing a highly polished 35-minute IPO video featuring the tech companies’ executives (and a client or two) extolling their virtues and outlining their origin stories and visions.

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Optimism Historical Buffett

Buffett’s 2016 Shareholder Letter Displays Cautious Optimism for U.S. Markets

Every year, we look forward to Warren Buffett’s letter to Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholders. We’ve analyzed over 50 shareholder letters from the Oracle of Omaha, dating back to 1965 and, like most analysts, we look forward to Buffett’s predictions for the U.S. Economy in each one. In the wake of the turmoil surrounding and following the…

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QCs Favorite Oscar Speeches

QC’s Favorite Oscar Speeches

Some 30 million people tuned in Sunday night as the stars made their way down the red carpet for the 2017 Academy Awards. For film gurus, the main attractions are awards themselves. For the more casual viewers, maybe it’s the clothes or the musical performances.

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