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		<title>The Audacity of Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 02:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus A Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something that separates an average communicator from a good one, a good one from a great one, and a great one from an incredible one.  What do you think it is?

Practice?
Research?
Statistics?
Clever wordplay?
Experience?

No one in their right mind would head into a speech or interview without at least a little bit of practice.  Many [...]


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		<title>Any Engineer Can be a Great Speaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop quiz.
Raise your hand if you know what any of this means:

 Tensile strength
Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
Centroid
Fourier Analysis
M/M/2/4 Queue
Markov Chain
Coefficient of Friction

The quiz is over.
If you know what any of those mean then you are a fellow engineer/dork/nerd/geek.  Don&#8217;t sweat it though.  This isn&#8217;t going to be a nerd bashing session.  You know what I [...]


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