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The Quick and Dirty on Data Visualization
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How Your Smartphone Will Transform Your Elevator Pitch
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Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
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Draw Your Elevator Pitch
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A Presentation Isn't Always the Right Way to Communicate
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How Venture Capitalists Really Assess A Pitch
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Don't Over Prepare Your Pitch
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Want to Persuade Someone? Sit Beside Them
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How to Make a Compelling Pitch
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TED Diary: Brad Pitt, Bill Gates, and Robots
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To Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking, Stop Thinking About Yourself
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Kinesthetic Speaker: Putting Action into Words
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Don’t Cancel That Meeting
Business communication Digital ArticleWinter is prime time for corporate meetings; these include meetings with dealers, vendors, franchisees, as well as with sales teams. These meetings are used to get perspective on the year as well as prepare for the future. But these times with tight credit and plunging revenues are hardly traditional, and from what I hear from […] -
In Presentations, Kill Your Darlings
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The PowerPoint Mistake Almost Everyone Makes
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Yes, Virtual Presenting Is Weird
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Delivering Your Innovative Ideas
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When Presenting Your Data, Get to the Point Fast
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Telling Tales
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MINI USA: Finding a New Advertising Agency (A)
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Crystallize Your Message
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HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations
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Communicate Your Case
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Harvard ManageMentor v11: Presentation Skills Module
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication, Vol. 2 (with bonus article "Leadership Is a Conversation" by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind)
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HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication 2-Volume Collection
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HBR Guides Collection (8 Ebooks)
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Good Charts, Updated and Expanded: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations
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Don't Be a Cat: Putting on Your Best Virtual Face
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HBR Guide to Making Better Decisions Toolkit
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Student Guide to the Case Method: Note 6 - Preparing for and Writing a Case Exam
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Effective Business Presentations
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MINI USA: Finding a New Advertising Agency (B)
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Writing, Presenting, and Communicating with Confidence (HBR Work Smart Series)
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HBR's 20-Minute Manager Ebook Boxed Set (10 Books)
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The Quick and Dirty on Data Visualization
Communication Digital ArticleThese five questions will help give your numbers meaning. -
Boost Power Through Body Language
Powerful leaders exude confidence and control. You can convey these same qualities-by strategically directing your body language. -
How Your Smartphone Will Transform Your Elevator Pitch
Innovation Digital ArticleListening to good entrepreneurs make their pitch is great fun. How well, or poorly, they align their passion and persuasiveness to the product details reveals a lot. Are they pushing an idea or telling a story? Is it all about their own charisma or is the innovative idea the real hero? Are we having a […] -
Stop Hosting Boring Virtual Meetings
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Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
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Draw Your Elevator Pitch
Communication Digital ArticleWhy cartoons are so memorable. -
A Presentation Isn't Always the Right Way to Communicate
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Harvard Management Communication Letter, June 2003, Volume 6, Number 6
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How Venture Capitalists Really Assess A Pitch
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Don't Over Prepare Your Pitch
Management VideoWhen you're preparing to persuade someone, you don't always need to stick to a script. Sometimes the most convincing moments are improvised.