Business Speakers, Motivational Speakers, Keynote and Key Note Speakers, Inspirational Speakers
What do a hard shove in an NBA playoff game, a wayward ball in The Masters golf tournament, and a high school soccer match in Utah have in common? According to human deception expert, Pamela Meyer, Nike’s new slogan just about sums sums it up: Winning Takes Care of Everything. Read More
Despite Botín’s remarkable record to date, investors are losing faith in the Santander story. “They have had a good crisis but it’s a question of the future,” says one big asset manager who no longer holds the bank’s shares. “You don’t invest looking backwards but looking forwards.” As that kind of mentality has taken hold, shareholders have been deserting the bank. Even since the strong autumn bounce in the stock market, Santander’s shares are barely up, underperforming rivals at home and abroad. Read More
It is not so much that Obama can deliver a decent speech (though he’s not as good a communicator as Reagan was) rather the manner in which he couches his argument. Obama, more than most politicians but rather like Reagan, talks in such a fashion that you suspect he finds it hard to believe that anyone could truly and honestly and decently disagree with him and certainly no intelligent or generous person could. Read More
Our elite attitude toward speakers is also gathering steam. We booked Ian Bremmer for another C-Level conference in New York, Richard Branson for a Sydney client, Lawrence McDonald for an Abu Dhabi event, Cindy Gallop for various media summits, and we recently secured the West Coast graffiti artist, Erik Wahl for one of our new clients. Read More
Every silver lining has a dark cloud. While the fiscal cliff was averted, the process by which the deal was reached casts a large shadow over hopes that the election might create a more conducive environment for cooperation, and dysfunctional American politics will weigh on both the U.S. economic recovery and President Obama’s legislative agenda. Read More
Each night a bus drove us back downtown to 23rd street, but when it crossed the border at 39th, we were once again back in the darkness, rumbling south without any traffic lights, flanked by the little white torches of pedestrians flickering on the sidewalks. Read More
For anyone not familiar with Branson, his credentials are many and varied, starting with the fact that despite cracking the Forbes list of the world’s richest, he is one billionaire who never went to business school, making the title somewhat dubious, but it fits with the irreverent nature of his previous business tomes, Screw It, Let’s Do It; Business Stripped Bare; Reach for the Skies; and Screw Business As Usual, along with his autobiography, Losing My Virginity. Read More
Both President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, offer differing visions to meet that goal, and both visions offer opportunities for investors. Larry McDonald, the senior policy strategist for the investment firm NewEdge, came up with three portfolios for investors to look at depending on who wins the election. Read More
Europe is facing a crisis-fighting stalemate amid discord over a banking union, Greece’s debate on how to meet bailout commitments and foot-dragging by Spain on a possible aid bid. European Union President Herman Van Rompuy warned today against “a tendency of losing the sense of urgency” in fighting the debt crisis three years after it erupted in Greece. Read More
When your teams can easily collborate on documents, projects and presentations by simply accessing a Web browser or mobile application – you can start really creating a culture of innovation and disruptive thinking. Read More
