Interview on Radiospectives

I was recently interviewed for the internet radio show, “Radiospectives.” In the interview I talk about how to use humor and improv comedy ideas in business and life. Check it out: Avish interviewed in Radiospectives

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5 Conference Speakers That Can Kill a Conference

Planning a conference? Be wary of using of these types of conference speakers! Planning to speak at an event? Make sure you’re not one of these presenters! In the audience at a big event? See how many of these you can spot! The Winger The Winger is usually an industry leader or expert who feels [...]

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Society: Creativity Assassin?

Sometimes I think it’s a wonder that people are able to grow up and have any creativity at all. Why? Because the world is filled with “creativity assassins.” They may not even know they are one, but nonetheless, they are out there, like a conformist sleeper cell just waiting to be activated… As I had [...]

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Focus on Your Strengths, But Don’t Completely Ignore Your Weaknesses!

Do you have a weakness in some area of your life that you are avoiding dealing with? Are you hoping that by ignoring it and focusing on your strengths that you might never have to deal with it? As you’ll see from our NFL friends, that may not be the best strategy… This past weekend [...]

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Lessons From Choosing an Online Dating Site: Beware of Generalizations!

Being a single guy, I get a lot of advice and opinions on how and where to meet women. Being a human being, I get lots of advice and opinions from a lot of well meaning people on a lot of topics. I’m sure you do too. But have you ever taken a step back [...]

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Funny Motivation: Not the Bees!

Have you ever majorly mis-stepped? You know, you mess something up in a way that makes you question your self-worth, your career choice, and whether you have any business doing what you do? If not, you are very fortunate. For the rest of us, I have some good news: Everyone mis-steps! Take our friend Nicolas [...]

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The World Wants You to Be Stupid: Nutella

Note: This is part of a regular series dedicated to pointing out instances where the world is relying on you being stupid – don’t fall for it! In this edition of TWWYTBS, we look at another ad for an unhealthy product passing itself off as some kind of health food. Yes, I realize that the [...]

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Give “The Simple” Everything You’ve Got

Sometimes success can be just plain simple. In fact, it often has to be simple. This Saturday, January 23rd, my chapter of the National Speakers Association will be putting on the full day Growing Your Business with Mark LeBlanc at the Renaissance Philadelphia hotel. It is a great program that any small business owner or [...]

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Lessons from TV’s Masters of Improvisation

The ability to improvise is a wondrous thing. It can help you out with so many situations, big or small. To give you a few ideas on how you can improve the quality of your “life improvisations,” let’s take a look at some classic masters of improvisation from the fictional world of television… (Note: I [...]

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New Years Resolution: Increase the Quality of Your Procrastination

Have your New Years Resolutions fallen by the wayside yet? If so, let me share with you one of mine that you may want to adopt: Increase the Quality of Your Procrastination (Note: this one is only good if the resolution you let fall by the wayside was “stop procrastinating”) Procrastination has been an issue [...]

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