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A Sport With No Scoreboard What are you grading yourself against? Eric Harris October 23, 2026 The Emperor Wears What He Chose The most powerful man in the world keeps a notebook that, as far as anyone can tell, he never meant anyone else to read. Marcus Aurelius rules Rome from 161 to 180, and…

We Brought a Fridge to a Presentation? Yep. And we got the yes. Eric Harris October 16, 2026 The Medium is Precedes the Message It’s 2009. We’re presenting a coupon redesign to a client, and we’ve brought a refrigerator. A real one. Magnets hold the client’s current coupons to the door, crowded among several of…

Who’s Telling Your Story in Year Ten? Are you presenting for a moment, or for momentum? Eric Harris October 09, 2026 Somebody Else Is Telling It Now I’m in a hospital bed at a leadership summit for a large healthcare system. Gown on. Blanket over my knees. A nurse takes my vitals while a physician…

Stay a While Remember who pays when you linger in slides Eric Harris October 02, 2026 The Cost of Lingering Walk into a casino and try to find a clock. You won’t. There aren’t any windows either, so an hour in, you can’t tell whether it’s two in the afternoon or two in the morning,…

How to Get Budget Approval Lessons from a sandwich chain that was late to the party Eric Harris September 25, 2026 (Not Yet) a Reality Eight years ago, a marketing email showed up with my name in the subject line, and it changed the way I think about making a business case, forever. Eric, We…

Most Presentations Are Just the Middle Steal the three-part playbook to make a complete shape. Eric Harris September 18, 2026 I Could Have Drawn It on a Napkin Now that it’s football season, we’ve found ourselves watching a lot of TV ads again. I’m a recovering advertiser, so I pay a different kind of attention…

Adrenaline is a Fickle Mistress And you'll drive yourself crazy trying to silence it. Eric Harris September 11, 2026 Asking One Question for Eleven Years Think back to your last high-stakes presentation. You decide what high-stakes means, because it’s relative to whatever you had riding on it. The question: What did the five minutes leading…

Four Sneaky Presentation Habits Who taught us these, and why do they stick? Eric Harris September 04, 2026 Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory It’s Friday morning, and you’re formatting slide forty-one. You’ve been at this deck since Tuesday and nobody’s seen it. You’ll send it Monday so they can read it before the…

But it's Just an Update The question most status reports are dodging. Eric Harris August 28, 2026 Every Update is a Story of Change We’re three hours into a workshop, building the architecture that makes people believe something. The whiteboard’s full. The coffee’s cold. A manager raises his hand. “What if we don’t present to…

Stop Replacing Yourself In a virtual presentation, the deck doesn't just compete with you. Eric Harris August 21, 2026 “Can Everyone See My Screen?” The odds are high someone sang this refrain to you at least once in the last week. Like a dinner bell for virtual presentations, this line has permeated corporate culture. The…