What the Best Leaders Say Issue 17 You’ve sat through it more times than you can count. A talk that was thoroughly argued and completely boring. The speaker knew their material. The slides were solid. The argument, if you’d bothered to follow it, probably held up. But somewhere around slide 3 you checked out, and you couldn’t have said exactly why. It’s tempting to blame the delivery. Not enough energy, too many bullet points, a monotonous voice. But that’s not it. Plenty of low-energy, badly...