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By Tom Leech, 354 pages, published Feb 18, 2014

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From Tom Leech, author, speech coach, and conference speaker, comes a new book: SAY IT LIKE SHAKESPEARE: THE BARD'S TIMELESS TIPS FOR COMMUNICATION SUCCESS, 2nd Edition. This new edition of McGraw-Hill’s original widely-praised book provides a tuneup for enhancing communications success in business and personal worlds. As the Bard of Avon put it 4+ centuries ago “No man is lord of anything ‘til he communicate his parts to others.” To succeed in business, communicating with colleagues, upper management, customers (real or potential), the general public and others along the way is a key factor in landing that job, doing it well., and getting that promotion…..

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  • kahn on 24/05/2017 - 21:22
    +1

    This is utter nonsense. If you want to rise up in the world, you just need to communicate like Trump. Use simple language, be boastful, never admit fault, appeal to people's greed and fear. I recall there was a comparison of speeches from US presidents showing the decline in complexity. I think it was Lincoln versus Obama. There's also the amusing comparison of letters from US civil war soldiers versus modern soldiers here that makes fun of how badly we communicate these days.

    • bargaino on 24/05/2017 - 21:41
      +3

      u r exagurating.

      • kahn on 24/05/2017 - 22:00
        +5

        True, but just look at how many times you see people confusing "there, their, and they're" to get an idea of how literacy has declined. There's also the cringe-worthy "could of" instead of "could've".

        • Diji1 on 24/05/2017 - 22:21

          Literacy hasn't declined.

        • PJC on 25/05/2017 - 01:11
          +1

          I wish I could plus-vote your comment 10 times.

    • payton on 24/05/2017 - 21:44
      -3

      Flowery "meaningful" poetic words can be found by the hundreds any day on the internet.
      Trump won because people are tired of walking on eggshells, on hearing manufactured outrage from the noisy minority. The noisy minority whose skill is in guilt tripping the gullible, creating division, coining new "issues" to solve, and delusional idea of what Australia should be.

      be boastful

      Obama was pretty full on arrogant when he attacked Trump.

      • kahn on 24/05/2017 - 22:06

        Looks like an Obama fanboy negged you :-P

        Trump won because people are tired of walking on eggshells

        Do you really think so? That's a pretty pathetic excuse/reason for voting for the leader of your nation. Actually, I'm pretty sure that's an excuse :-)

        • payton on 24/05/2017 - 22:21

          Do you really think so?

          Only need to look as far back as Anzac Day 2017 to see people had enough of it
          hellloooo SJW Superstar

        • kahn on 24/05/2017 - 22:39

          @payton:
          Me no understand.

    • greatlamp on 24/05/2017 - 21:50
      +2

      Different skills for different times.

      In Lincoln's era, the voting population would have been far wealthier and more educated, being only a small portion of society.

      Trump mentioned in an interview that part of his strategy was to insult and interrupt his opponents during speeches. It appeared that was genuinely surprised that there noone had ever tried it before.

      One of his advisors was reported mentioning that they had analysed an entire year of talkback radio to find hot topics.

      He puts on a persona of a bafoon who just woke up one day and decided to run for president, and self appointed intellectuals in the media love to promote this image.

      Both Trump and his predecessor Bush are highly intelligent, but you need to watch how they acted before they ran for office to see this.

      • kahn on 24/05/2017 - 22:12

        Both Trump and his predecessor Bush are highly intelligent

        Could you provide proof/detail? If you're referring to Trump's ability to gain people's confidence (a con-man), then I wouldn't quite call that intelligence. As for Bush jnr., he was a poor business man.

        • Diji1 on 24/05/2017 - 22:25

          As for Bush jnr., he was a poor business man.

          Good Lord you have no idea about what you're talking about.

        • kahn on 24/05/2017 - 22:42
          +1

          @Diji1:
          From what I recall, he inherited an oil business from his father and then ruined it. I'd be willing to bet that he has a history of failures, although they might not suggest low intelligence.

      • Diji1 on 24/05/2017 - 22:24
        -1

        Sorry but you're already a fool if you think you can gauge somebodies intelligence from their public persona.

        • kahn on 24/05/2017 - 22:51
          +1

          If you really think we are supposed to ignore someone's public persona and judge them from what they supposedly say in private, then perhaps there's something wrong with you too. Even if you were to ignore all the stupidity, lies, rudeness, deception, etc. that Trump shows publicly, then there's also plenty of examples of his crooked business dealings.

          Even if an intelligent person was acting as a fool in public, then that is, apart from being deceitful, insulting the audience's intelligence.

        • gentlecrack on 25/05/2017 - 06:38

          @kahn: God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another.

        • greatlamp on 25/05/2017 - 10:12

          @kahn: I never said they were moral or good people.

          Have a look at videos of bush speaking when he was a governor. He sounds like a professor.

          There is also a video of Trump speaking to the united nations advising them of their delayed construction of their HQ. Again completely different tone, vocabulary, sentence structure.

        • kahn on 25/05/2017 - 10:54

          @rememberme:

          Yeah, I'm aware Bush spoke quite well before he became president, but I don't think you could call his later actions as simply putting on a persona of a buffoon. Just curious about the Trump UN thing - do you know if he was reading from a prepared statement? I've seen other people say that he is a different person in private and public, so I concede that you have a point there, but I'm not so sure if it's an issue of intelligence.

        • greatlamp on 25/05/2017 - 19:37

          @kahn:
          Trump speaks better without teleprompters in all the videos I have seen.

          It is quite an interesting
          https://youtu.be/tx651fvHMPo

        • kahn on 25/05/2017 - 21:39

          @rememberme:
          Thanks, but I could only stomach watching the first two minutes. Yes, he does seem a bit less stupid in his younger years, but his current efforts are hardly a high benchmark :-) You've made me wonder if you're allowing his arrogance and portrayal of self-confidence to fool you into thinking he is intelligent. I think I read somewhere that he recently said he spent half an hour researching some topic like healthcare or the middle-east and now knows more than anyone on the subject. Intelligent people are the opposite of Trump - the more they research and learn, the more they realise how little they actually know.

        • cashless on 26/05/2017 - 21:52

          @kahn:

          You mean Trump can actually read?

        • kahn on 26/05/2017 - 22:07

          @blibster:

          I realise that we've gone way off-topic, but I can't resist sharing this recent snippet from the New York Times with you:

          "In private, three administration officials conceded [that] they could not publicly articulate their most compelling—and honest—defense of the president for divulging classified intelligence to the Russians: that Mr. Trump, a hasty and indifferent reader of his briefing materials, simply did not possess the interest or the knowledge of the granular details of intelligence gathering to leak specific sources and methods of intelligence gathering that would harm American allies."

          And the reaction from John Kiriakou, a former CIA analyst who became a whistleblower on the CIA torture program:
          "I’ve never heard White House staff say that the president was too stupid or too ill-informed to have broken the law. And that’s really what it comes down to. The truth is, he leaked highly classified information that he shouldn’t have leaked."

      • LyndonBBear on 26/05/2017 - 12:44

        Literacy - buffoon

    • ireadtermsofuse on 25/05/2017 - 03:31

      You know, this could be yuge

  • retiredfeline on 24/05/2017 - 21:24
    +1

    No man is lord of anything ‘til he communicate his parts to others

    I'd rather not look at parts, thank you.

    • deadpoet on 24/05/2017 - 22:00
      +2

      Communicating parts… the Shakespeare era equivalent of dick pics!

  • BuyoTheCat on 24/05/2017 - 21:28
    +3

    This deal is like totally awesome.

  • havebeerbelywillsumo on 24/05/2017 - 22:27

    He also said "the time is out of joint".

  • l-p on 24/05/2017 - 22:53
    +1

    y'all just need to hear Lil'Wayne to sort yous out, aight

  • SySalem on 24/05/2017 - 23:14

    I keep getting this error "You attempted to purchase an item while in a different country than listed on your Amazon account." But my default address is Las Vegas, anyone ever had this and been able to fix it? Side note, if I go to the AU store, it says "Kindle titles are available for US customers on Amazon.com.
    Continue shopping on the Kindle Store at Amazon.com." and won't let me try to get it.

    • SySalem on 25/05/2017 - 01:11

      Fixed the problem! For some reason, while in my "Manage Your Content and Devices" Settings, it said I was in USA, it wouldn't let the purchase happen, on either US or AU site, the moment I changed it from my Las Vegas address to AU address, buying it worked…on the US site…Crazy world.

  • Bunnyburger on 25/05/2017 - 00:11
    +2

    The last time I compared a girl to a midsummer's night dream she kicked me in the butt!

    • retiredfeline on 25/05/2017 - 11:25
      +2

      So you must have been facing away from her when you said that line as she kicked you in the butt. :)

      • Bunnyburger on 25/05/2017 - 13:31

        Yeah I tried that looking faraway pensive poet pose! XD

  • cashless on 25/05/2017 - 02:48
    +2

    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
    For thou art more lovely and more temperate.
    Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
    And summers lease hath all too short a date

    Bit like bargains really
    They look fantastic when first viewed, but their attraction fades over time….

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