by Paul Quinn | Oct 10, 2024 | Asking - Business, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Workplace, Communication Skills
In an episode of the classic sitcom I Love Lucy, Lucy wants her husband, Ricky, to ask his boss. Mr. Littlefield, for a raise. Ricky dreads the idea. Lucy invites him to rehearse his “ask” with her, as if she were his boss. In the role play, the reluctant...
by Paul Quinn | Mar 27, 2024 | Asking - Business, Asking - Leadership
Shortly after 5:00 p.m. on March 27, 1977, at Tenerife’s Los Rodeos Airport in the Canary Islands, Dutch KLM flight 4805 sped across a densely foggy runway moments from lifting off when it rammed into Pan Am flight 1736 taxiing toward it. All 248 KLM passengers...
by Paul Quinn | Aug 2, 2023 | Asking - Business, Asking - Empowerment
In this interview, Susan Bennett tells us what it was like to be the original voice of the iPhone assistant, “Siri” … her fear-busting “ask” that changed everything … her experience as a backup singer for Burt Bacharach … and her thoughts on the “happy...
by Paul Quinn | Jul 26, 2023 | Asking - Business, Asking - Empowerment, Asking - Entrepreneurs, Asking - Leadership, Asking - Sales
Brian Little is vice president and global head of corporate human resources for Intel. He previously served in senior human resources roles at companies including Ameritech, Amoco, and Zurich Insurance, and was recognized in 2017 by the industry magazine HRO...
by Paul Quinn | Jan 24, 2023 | Asking - Business, Asking - Leadership, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Workplace, Presentation Skills
One afternoon many years ago, after hours of coaching McDonald’s corporate presenters for a company-wide conference, I stepped out to grab some lunch. It had been a full morning of back-to-back rehearsals at the company’s Chicago-area headquarters. And it...
by Paul Quinn | Sep 14, 2022 | Asking - Business, Asking - Empowerment, Asking - Entrepreneurs, Presentation Skills
In September 2020, Don Lessem and Valerie Jones drove from their home in Philadelphia to Las Vegas, where they walked onto the famously intimidating set of ABC’s Shark Tank to ask $500,000 for a 10% stake in Dino Don Inc., their $1.8M animatronic dinosaur...