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Interview on Radiospectives

I was recently interviewed for the internet radio show, “Radiospectives.” In the interview I talk about how to use humor and improv comedy ideas in business and life. Check it out:

Avish interviewed in Radiospectives

5 Conference Speakers That Can Kill a Conference

Planning a conference? Be wary of using of these types of conference speakers! Planning to speak at an event? Make sure you’re not one of these presenters! In the audience at a big event? See how many of these you can spot!

The Winger
The Winger is usually an industry leader or expert who feels the …

Society: Creativity Assassin?

javier-assassinSometimes I think it’s a wonder that people are able to grow up and have any creativity at all. Why? Because the world is filled with “creativity assassins.” They may not even know they are one, but nonetheless, they are out there, like a conformist …

Focus on Your Strengths, But Don’t Completely Ignore Your Weaknesses!

favreDo you have a weakness in some area of your life that you are avoiding dealing with? Are you hoping that by ignoring it and focusing on your strengths that you might never have to deal with it? As you’ll see from our NFL friends, …

Lessons From Choosing an Online Dating Site: Beware of Generalizations!

Just because Meg Ryan had a good online dating experience doesn’t mean you will. Or that you won’t. It was just a movie...Being a single guy, I get a lot of advice and opinions on how and where to meet women. Being a human being, I …

Funny Motivation: Not the Bees!

nicolas-cageHave you ever majorly mis-stepped? You know, you mess something up in a way that makes you question your self-worth, your career choice, and whether you have any business doing what you do? If not, you are very fortunate. For the rest of us, I …

The World Wants You to Be Stupid: Nutella

nutellaNote: This is part of a regular series dedicated to pointing out instances where the world is relying on you being stupid – don’t fall for it!

In this edition of TWWYTBS, we look at another ad for an unhealthy product passing itself off as …

Give “The Simple” Everything You’ve Got

growingyourbusinessSometimes success can be just plain simple. In fact, it often has to be simple.

This Saturday, January 23rd, my chapter of the National Speakers Association will be putting on the full day Growing Your Business with Mark LeBlanc at the Renaissance Philadelphia hotel. …

Lessons from TV’s Masters of Improvisation

The ability to improvise is a wondrous thing. It can help you out with so many situations, big or small.

To give you a few ideas on how you can improve the quality of your “life improvisations,” let’s take a look at some classic masters of improvisation from the fictional world of television…

(Note: I did not …

New Years Resolution: Increase the Quality of Your Procrastination

Have your New Years Resolutions fallen by the wayside yet?

If so, let me share with you one of mine that you may want to adopt:

Increase the Quality of Your Procrastination

(Note: this one is only good if the resolution you let fall by the wayside was “stop procrastinating”)

Procrastination has been an issue with me for …