Skills and development

By Fiona Czerniawska

Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention.

By Fiona Czerniawska

Occasionally, very occasionally if I'm honest, a piece of thought leadership comes along that stops me in my tracks. Booz's Empowering the Third Billion, Women and the World of Work in 2012 did just that.

Joe (let’s call him) is good at making presentations.  A highly-experienced consultant, he’s knows how to project his voice, read his audience, put just the right amount of content on his slides and not fiddle with the loose change in his pockets while he talks. People are nice enough to say that he says interesting things in an engaging way.

But how much does this positive feedback stem from the fact he’s told them what they want to hear?