Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
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The art of communication is the language of leadership.
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Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
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Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.
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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
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