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Harvard Business Review

• A Better Approach to Group Editing

• Find the Right Words to Inspire Your Team

• Stop Scripting Your Speeches

• Eight Ways to Give a Great Presentation, Even if You're Super Anxious About It

• How to Elevate Your Presence in a Virtual Meeting

• Make the Most of the Job You Already Have

• Present Your Data Like a Pro

• How to Respond to "So Tell Me About Yourself" in a Job Interview

• How to Decode a Job Description

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HBR VIDEO

• How to Respond to “So, Tell Me About Yourself” in a Job Interview

HBR INFOGRAPHIC

• How to Make an Impression on Video Calls While WFH

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CNBC

• Are you rambling too much? Here's an easy trick to get to the point faster

Fast Company

• Four Ways to Respond When Someone Cuts You Off at Work

• This Simple Advice from Kamala Harris Will Make You a Better Public Speaker

• These Common Email Mistakes are Ruining Your Credibility

• Try This Simple Trick To Beat Your Public Speaking Anxiety

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Chief Executive

• How Leaders Should Deliver Bad News

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CEO World

• How Leaders Make Their Thanks Matter

• Want to Be a Clearer Communicator? Stop Tying Yourself in "Nots"

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Leadership Now

• Why Content Isn't King in Leadership Communications

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Real Leaders

• What Every Team Wants to Hear From Their Leader​

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Toastmaster Magazine

• How to Quit Talking Quickly

• Why Training with Mirrors and Video May Waste Your Time

• 8 Ways to Make Your Voicemail Matter

• What a Nice Gesture

• Make Your Compliments Count

• 10 Tips for More Productive Speech Practiced

• Need to Make an Impact? Get Loud

• Drop Those Crutches

• How to Support a Colleague Who's Speaking

• 25 Ways to Nail Your Workplace Presentation

• Good Notes: A Public Speaker’s Best Ally

• Get to the Point

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PRDaily/Ragan.com

• How to Communicate with Targeted Transparency

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Communication Intelligence Magazine

• How to Avoid Being in the Bottom 87 percent of Leadership Communicators

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The Huffington Post

• Taylor Swift’s Testimony: A Lesson In Communication

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LinkedIn

• The 14 Most Important But Least Obvious Public Speaking Mistakes

• If Your Goal is To Be a “Great Public Speaker,” You’re Missing the Point

• Four Ways to Sabotage the End of Your Presentation

• Why “Stop Rambling” is Useless Public Speaking Advice

• Want to Make Your Point? Sell It, Don’t Just Share It

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BK Blog

• Five Tips for Selling Your Book's Most Powerful Point

• Six Ways to Capitalize on Your Next Conference

• Are You Truly Selling Your Point?

• The Four Enemies of Making Your Point

• This Year's Commencement Speakers Made Great Points — And You Can, Too!

• If You Think You Know Your Point, Think Again

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Medium

• How to Answer the Question “What’s Your Book About?”(Nonfiction)

• How to Answer the Question “So What’s Your Book About”? (Fiction)

• Get to the Point

• Communicating Effectively Means Recognizing “More is Less”

• The Most Useful Tip to Overcome Glossophobia

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Nonfiction Author's Association

• Knowing and Championing the Most Important Part of Your Book – Its Point

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Interview with of Ed Newman of Ennyman's Territory

• Communications Pro Joel Schwartzberg Gets to the Point on Public Speaking

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Newsweek

• Slouching Toward Fatherhood

The New York Post

• It's Quitting Time

The New York Daily News

• Got a Second?

• An Open Letter to Rob Zombie

The New York Times Magazine

• The 37-Year-Old Version

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New Jersey Monthly

• The Mother of All Holidays

The Star-Ledger

• When Will This Crisis End? It's Just a Matter of Time

• I Found One Good Thing in this NJ Transit Summer of Hell

• To Divorced Dads, Father's Day Still Means Everything

• A 'Boo' for Halloween Brutality

• Thanks and Misgivings

• The Gift of Giving

• Memorial Daze

• First Day Jitters for the Kid in Dad

• Valentine's Day Disconnect

Chicken Soup for the Soul

• My Amazing Mom (2018): Love Engraved

• Random Acts of Kindness (2017): Playing Nice 

• The Dating Game (2013): Investment Banking 

• Thanks, Dad (2010): It Was My Dad 

• Divorce and Recovery (2008): The Gift

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New Jersey Jewish News

• The Gift of Giving…or Getting Your Goat

Falls Church News Press

• A Night at Darkwood Manor

The Huffington Post

Essays

Mediabistro.com

Articles on workplace issues

The Good Men Project

Essays on modern manhood