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Are You Ready to Sell? "You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the best ideas,   but if you can't sell them, you're not going to succeed." = Hank Paulson, former CEO, Goldman Sachs, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Remember, every time you present, you are selling.  Ideas, concepts, numbers, even "just information" requires that the audience buys into your message. The best presenters give their audience a clear reason to buy. What's your reason?
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 Using LEGO to Talk Finance?  Hell Yeah! Back to using unconventional visuals.   They can be fun, funky, or anything else, as long as it talks directly to your message.  Take a look at global banking giant J.P Morgan's slide to explain  the European debt crisis: The presenter's job is to tell the story on the slide and connect it to the serious content. Who said finance can't be fun?