Successful Presentation Strategies (Collection)

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, as on the first page of the Introduction, and on every other page, and in a straight line stretching all the way back to the Stanford-versus-UCLA football game in 1956 (Stanford 13, UCLA 14, unfortunately), where I first met him, is Benji (as those of us who love him call him) Rosen. What I said on the first page is well worth repeating: The conversation I had with Benji 31 years (almost to the day) after that football game changed my life. For that, I am eternally grateful.

I wouldn’t have met Benji, however, nor would I have met all the other wonderful people in this book (in fact, I might have been a dentist in Great Neck, New York), if I hadn’t walked into the freshman speech class at New York University, ...