Tremendous Tracey
Bless Your Heart, Mr. Doocy
After the President survived a third assassination attempt, one reporter asked a question that managed to offend everyone watching. The single word that came before it reveals a leadership lesson hiding in plain sight, and what every leader can take from it.
Three Steps to Make Your Message Stick (Or Why Your Brilliant Ideas Keep Bouncing Off)
I used to kill audiences with content.
Not in a good way.
I'd pack my speeches so full of frameworks, models, and data that people's heads would pr...
Sharing and Preserving Knowledge
Thus, whether you are learning something new or teaching others, knowledge can only be absorbed when it has something to anchor itself to; otherwise, it simply dissipates. This fact is why stories are so powerful for speakers, why Jesus spoke in parables, and why the root of all communication is in identification.
Producing a Tremendous Harvest
Here comes my favorite season of the year—fall. I can see the day’s becoming slightly shorter; I watch for a leaf or two to begin transitioning to flames of gold and red; I hear and see the birds starting their migration to their new home. In South Central PA, the harvest is a sight to behold. This year's rain and sun ratio were magnificent. I have never seen fields of corn as high and green as the ones that fill our landscape. Autumn is the time of year when we look to the harvest and reap the products of our labor.
What Playing Field Are You On?
If we are not intentional about spending the right amount of time in each of these areas, we'll never get a touchdown. In fact, we may fumble the ball, suffer a business ending interception, or a family ending losing streak.
Show, Don’t Tell
Do you remember the grade school activity of Show and Tell where we brought in an object and then proceeded to talk about it with our classmates? ...
Capturing Wisdom: Write to Life
“When you read a book, when you hear a speaker, when you hear a sermon, always take your pen and read or listen with the pen to cultivate the habit of making notes of things you think rather than what you thought you heard. Now, today make a few notes. As you hear speaking make notes of what you think. Listen, but listen just enough to get your mind in motion and start those thought process.”
Berks Technical Institute Commencement Speech
Good evening graduating class of Berks Technical Institute. Thank you to President Reichard for allowing me to share this evening’s remarks. I want...
more human than human
I’ve gone through some tough times in my life, every single stressor imaginable: death, divorce, war, moving; I’ve been served, sued, betrayed, dum...
the key to a tremendous 2012
The Key to Excellence, my favorite speech of my late father, Charlie “Tremendous” Jones, was recently transcribed into the latest volume of our Lif...
Are we living in a material world, or should I be a virtual girl?
I was on a conference call today with several tremendous individuals and the name Reid Hoffman came up. Reid is the founder of LinkedIn, which is t...
