Rob Biesenbach
Communications pro, actor, author
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Recent Posts
- How a Story Can Save Lives
- 5 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat
- 5 Lessons from The Great Gatsby School of Writing
- The Art of the Bad Apology (And a Lesson from Bill Clinton)
- To Be a Better Writer, Accept Edits with Grace (5 Steps)
- Sterling’s Gold: 7 Lessons for Success from Mad Men
- The Myth of Body Language
- I’m Not Angry
- 3 Quick Tips for Presenters and Public Speakers
- The Secret to Being a Better Editor (Plus 5 Essential Tips)
Categories
- Audience (29)
- Book (17)
- Communication (44)
- Crisis Communication (3)
- Editing (13)
- Emotion (14)
- Grammar & Usage (11)
- Language (16)
- Leadership (11)
- Listening (7)
- Management (7)
- Media Relations (4)
- Messaging (2)
- Obstacles to Communication (5)
- Presentations/Speeches (50)
- Promotion (1)
- Proofing (1)
- Quotes (5)
- Relationships (2)
- Review & Approval Process (13)
- Show, Don't Tell (20)
- Social Media (8)
- Storytelling (27)
- Uncategorized (5)
- Using Humor (9)
- Video (7)
- Visual Communication (6)
- Web (11)
- Working with Lawyers (7)
- Writing (36)
My Other Stuff
Tweets
- @TomKolovosTKO @WGNNews Nice job, Tom! I've been rocking the orange/red pants for a year now. 4 hours ago
- Death at the Grand Canyon: How a Story Can Save Lives bit.ly/17YKLwE Latest blog post #storytelling 7 hours ago
- Regarding Apple and taxes, don't hate the player, hate the game. Reform the system. 7 hours ago
- If Mad Men episodes were created by committee, last night's show would never have been seen. And that's why committee suck. 1 day ago
- Can't wait to read the anti-yahoo Tumblrs nyti.ms/17RD1g4 Yahoo pays $1.1 billion for Tumblr 1 day ago
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Tag Archives: Martin de Maat
The Hokey Pokey as a Blueprint for Life
It didn’t matter who you were — Martin de Maat believed in you. Martin was a teacher and administrator at Second City. He died in 2001, about a year before I started taking classes there, but he left behind an … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Leadership
Tagged Chris Farley, Martin de Maat, Second City
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