Larry Blumsack

Innovate or fall behind One of the pressures every major business faces today is innovate or fall behind. So how does an organization face the challenge of growing creative capital? So how do they tap the creative potential of their employees? A business’s underrated and untapped creative asset is their human capital. Studies show that […]

We are flooded with messages through a maze of media that too often fail to reach their target.

To Speak or Not to Speak. Is that a question? A successful volley in tennis or ping-pong provides great pleasure to the players. In a successful volley no one player is trying to outplay, outmaneuver or outsmart the other player. Each is receptive to the other. A successful volley is about mutual respect and collaboration. […]

Killing Grounds? Lack of Communication Skills can Kill As the country continually debates the healthcare issue my concern is that our hospitals are becoming a new killing ground. Let me state at the onset that my few personal hospital stays have been positive and flawless. It is a result of my experience as a strong and […]

The mark of a great leader necessitates three critical skills. I call them the 3C’s. The 3C’s will make a marked difference in a leader’s personal lifestyle as well as the success of their business or organization. In so many ways the “old ways” don’t work anymore. Ever so slowly, and I do mean ever […]

Whether you’re pitching or selling — there’s no difference for me — there are four skills you need to conquer. The use of mind – voice – body – media. It’s what I call the “whole body” presentation. Dump PowerPointless.

Know who your audience is and who comprises it before you open your mouth to speak.

“The only thing more powerful than a big idea is your ability to effectively communicate/sell that idea to others.”

With hundreds of millions or even billions of active users of Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumbler, LinkedIn, tumbler, Instagram the academic researchers at the Harvard business Review were a bit behind the times and redundant and attempting to teach people how to interact with machines.?