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Despite the fact we are living in the age of the Internet, email and other non-personal forms of communication, one thing that has moved people, delivered value for thousands of years is the speech by a single person at the right time, with the right message.

Eight Sure-Fire Ways to Win Buy-In and Make your Next Presentation a Smash Hit

by David Lim

By David Lim – for CFO Magazine Feb 2018

The Chinese must be arguably the world’s largest diaspora with roughly 100 million ‘Chinese’ who are mostly through national assimilation, Malaysians, Singaporeans and so on.

A couple of weeks ago, I quoted a client for an overseas engagement. I received a note saying I was now booked in a coach to fly to the venue.

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies.

I thought I would share for the first, and possibly only time here, a peek into 36 hours in the life of a professional speaker/expert; and then share some self-leadership lessons I have learnt along the way. You can scroll all the way down for these if you don’t want to read the whole post.