'The prime minister loves to hide behind legal processes.'
Kemi Badenoch begins PMQs with the oil crisis, asking Sir Keir Starmer if he will "approve the licences for Rosebank and Jackdaw gas fields in the North Sea".
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Conor Neill on the 3 best ways to start a speech (most people get this wrong):
"I guarantee if you go to conferences, 19 out of 20 speakers will start in one of these ways: 'My name is Conor Neill. I'm from Tango, and this talk is about the latest trend in monitoring strategies.' But all of you are sitting with a piece of paper that already says who I am and what I'm going to talk about. By repeating what you already know, I'm giving a signal that it's time to get your BlackBerry out."
Conor explains the three best ways to start instead:
Third best: A question that matters to the audience.
"How do you phrase a problem that the audience faces in a question?"
Second best: A factoid that shocks.
"There are more people alive today than have ever died. Every two minutes, the energy reaching the earth from the sun is equivalent to the whole annual energy usage of humanity. Does that change how you think about energy?"
The best way: Start like you'd start a story to a child.
"How do we start a story to a child? 'Once upon a time.' And what happens when you say once upon a time? My daughter leans forward, gets ready to hear, engages. We were all trained as kids to know when a story's coming. We also know when a teacher is about to deliver a 40-minute boring lecture."
He explains the grown-up version:
"In business, you don't hear Jack Welch saying 'once upon a time.' Steve Jobs doesn't start his speeches with 'once upon a time.' So there's a grown-up way of saying it: 'In October, the last time I was in this room, there were 120 people here. I was having a conversation with one of the world's experts on public speaking and he said something to me that changed what I think about what's important in speaking.' Now I can pause for 30 seconds, and you want to know what he said."
Conor concludes:
"Stories are about people. They're not about objects. They're not about things. If you want to tell a good story about your company, don't talk about the software talk about the people who built the software. What they do. How they are. What's important to them. What they sacrifice."
@FTFonFS1@Chris_Broussard@getnickwright@kevinwildes here it is! Enjoy the new song: Cowboy Brou! I thought this time I would add a little bonus. Alongside the official version is the version with my vocals as well! (Pitch correction and slight auto tune might make some parts sound wonky)
Music (done digitally), lyrics, and vocals all done by me, with a male country voice cover over my vocals for the official version!
I'm so happy to be able to finally get back into writing music, and there's a specific reason I started again. My dad has been declining in health, and is currently in the hospital. I feel like I owe him so much, and I made a promise to myself that I would start writing my own music so that he can enjoy it while he's here, hopefully for the foreseeable future! I kind of messed up by cashing out a parlay early which would have gotten me the $18,000 I owe him if I just left it, that on top of other things makes me feel bad and feel like he deserves more from me. So I'm going to continue to hopefully make more stuff for him to be able to listen to and enjoy!
Long story short, glad I was able to make another song for you guys, and hope to make more soon! Although, I don't really know a character I can do for a song for Nick LOL. Maybe that'll come after an official First Things First song! Enjoy!
Lyrics below!
This intervention by the PENGASSAN President, Festus Osifo is a very important one.
He provided a lot of clarity on the Dangote vs NNPCL crude supply saga.
Congrats @DangoteGroup, I think this is a monumental achievement for Nigeria and folks will feel the benefit in a year.
PS: Note that this doesn’t mean that PMS price will go back to 2015 levels
Wow. @ruffydfire predicted Usyk would win on Friday on @ARISEtv and I almost reached out to him to bet N100k on Tyson Fury. Thankfully my Rwanda trip made me forget 😂 #FuryUsyk
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