by David Phillips | Feb 3, 2014 | Communication, Feature Articles, Featured, Leadership
Last week in the metro Atlanta area, snow and ice turned city roads and interstates into parking lots. It was chaos, and not in the good, chaos theory kind of way. The brunt of the criticism was directed towards the school districts. Many students had to spend the...
by David Phillips | Nov 20, 2013 | Communication, Featured
“It was very disgusting,” Newton said. “That’s as blunt as I can be. I could say other words as well. We went back on YouTube and looked at Cam Newton’s post game interviews. I was like “oh my God,” I see what people see. I...
by David Phillips | Aug 14, 2013 | Communication, Featured, Leadership
By David Phillips Finishing up this short series on rhetoric, persuasion, and leadership, I want to help us rethink and reframe persuasion. After dealing with the question of logic or emotion, now we come to how I think we should look at how to influence and lead...
by David Phillips | Aug 2, 2013 | Business, Communication, Leadership
Traditional persuasion, giving statistics and facts and quotes from authorities has two problems, according to screenwriter, professor, and consultant Robert McKee. First, the people spoken to will have their own set of authorities, statistics, and experiences. While...
by David Phillips | Jul 15, 2013 | Communication, Leadership
Resonance is a physics concept that describes a system “in which an abnormally large vibration is produced in response to an external stimulus, occurring when the frequency of the stimulus is the same, or nearly the same, as the natural vibration frequency of the...
by David Phillips | Jul 9, 2013 | Communication, Featured, Leadership
If we are primarily emotion-based, business leaders attempting to persuade their employees to follow them through one more change in how the company functions have a practical decision to make. Get more here