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It's been circulating the Web a bit since he made this speech, but Apple and Pixar founder Steve jobs' speech to Stanford University students is a model in how to give a great speech that is human, authentic, honest and inspiring. It's attached as a Word document. To add a bit of value to it, I've added three short learning points at the beginning.

Jobs' speech tells three stories. He starts by saying:

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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