Jim Anderson

Every time we are asked to give a speech, we feel a sense of nervous energy flow through our body....

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is the one who is credited with saying "The only thing that is constant is change." In the world of giving speeches this is especially true....

As long as you are taking the time to create and practice a speech, you sure want the speech to make an impact on your audience....

SDN is not a revolutionary new technology. Instead, it is better to think of this as being a new way of organizing computer network functionality....

In order to get the other side of the table to agree to what you are proposing, you are going to have to capture their imagination....

How your next negotiation is going to turn out will be determined by how you open the negotiation....

When we enter into a negotiation, we simply don't know everything that we need to know....

This audiobook has been written with one goal in mind - to show you how you can make your product management career a success....

In order to be a successful CIO, you may decide you need an MBA. There are a lot of different ways to go about getting this degree - which one is the right one for you? Find out....

Leadership is one of those things that we all think that we know what it is, but we are hard pressed to describe it to someone if they ask us....

So just exactly what is innovation? It turns out that innovation is doing something new. It can be a new method, a new idea, or even a new product....

Who was it that said "It takes a village…"? They may not have been talking about being a product manager, but they might as well have been. Life has become so complex that product managers can no longer make their product a success just by their own efforts....

One of my negotiating mentors told me that most negotiations are over even before they start. When I asked her what she meant, she explained that the side that prepares the best for a negotiation is the one that will probably walk away with the best deal....

Any manager is only as good as his or her team. I'm pretty sure that we've all heard this before. However, that leaves us in a bit of a bind - more often than not we are just handed a team and told the make the most of them....

CIOs need to be able to communicate their thoughts with the rest of their department and the company in order to maintain credibility as a thought-leader. Effective communication is a set of skills that every CIO needs to develop. Learn how....

Every time we give a speech, we all want the same thing to happen: We want to change the world. However, in order to do that, we are going to have to find ways to connect with our audience. The challenge we are facing is that it turns out this is not an easy thing to do....

All negotiations have to come to a close. When your next negotiation reaches this stage, you want to make sure that you are going to be able to walk away with the best deal possible....

Every speech has to start out well and this is a great opportunity to do some bragging about yourself to your audience. Al Gore has some tips for us....

As a negotiator, it's going to be your job to take a look at where things stand in the negotiation and then package up the agreements so that they can be included in the final deal....

It turns out that most negotiations are over even before they begin....