humour

I just found the antidote to Talk Like A Pirate Day - David Zinger re-posted on Slacker Manager his 'How to talk like a leader', which is very funny. The reason he re-posted it is a sad one. You can find it on the Leadership Central links in the lefthand column of the Home Page, which is where I found it (that column is a feed to the best leadership blogs on the Net). Or just click below after this extract from David's post:

I like this, from Reuters 'Oddly Enough':

Dutch challenge Pisa over whose tower leans the most

Re the recent post in The Hub quoting Daniel Goleman on how CEOs mostly get sacked because of lack of EQ/Emotional Intelligence, not lack of IQ... 

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Just for fun here, but leaders occaisonally entertain and use the power of cathartic humour to get their point across.

Here we see some clips of Bill Bailey doing his stage show sending up rock paradigms - Enjoy!!

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/03/21/a-musical-comedy-break-bill-bailey-bonanza-on-youtube/

The next time you have to give a leadership speech - or any kind of speech for that matter - learn from this clip about

a) The power of non-verbal communication

b) the power of humour (or humor if you are in the US)

c) the power of surprise