Author Archives: Rick Gilbert
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This father brought his daughter to the Monterey Jazz Festival, hoping to get her interested [...]
Mar
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Amish woman, Cazenovia, WI., 2009 She was selling canned vegitables outside a store. I asked [...]
Mar
Storytelling
Good Storytelling Storytelling is hot. Management and leadership books abound with advice about how leaders [...]
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Dec
Blood on the marble floor
In my 40 year career as a speech coach and trainer, I’ve heard 100,000 speeches. [...]
Nov
A Bridge to the 21st. Century
The new east span of the Bay Bridge After watching this bridge take shape for [...]
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Nov
Small Group / Great Results
Greg Woloszczuk had the best of intentions. He planned to raise money and collect food for [...]
Nov
Fire on the plane?
Final leg of my month-long journey. Delta flight 1145 from Detroit to SFO: What [...]
Oct
What CEOs and Robert Redford have in common
In the world of entertainment, Robert Redford is truly a “Big Dog.” About as big [...]
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An Evening with Jon Hendricks
A magical evening with Jon and Judith Hendricks in Toledo. Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross formed [...]
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What’s Happening in Toledo?
Left Boston yesterday for Detroit. Rented a car and drove to Toledo. Why Toledo? On [...]
Oct
The Final Hoorah
EMC / Mass Challange This was it! The final book review on my tour. Up [...]
Oct
The Joys of a Small Group
James Brown was called “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.” From what I can [...]
Oct
God bless information kiosks
Today the unthinkable happened. I got off the plane at RTP, thinking only of getting [...]
Engineering vs. Sales
On Monday, October 7, Tess and I visited Enterasys in Salem, New Hampshire to interview [...]
Oct
Shrink-wrapping your boat!
Let’s say you own a boat that is docked in the harbor at South Portland, [...]
Oct