Top Ten Best Communicators 2007– Where’s Obama?
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Bert Decker, the presentations skills guru, published his annual list of the top ten best (and worst) communicators recently, and it’s worth a peek. It’s a reasonably good list, with some blatant exceptions.
First, where is Barack Obama? While Bert listed Republican candidate Mike Huckabee, he left out Obama, who’s hands-down the most eloquent public speaker running for office, as he showed in the recent NH debate. He has an uncanny ability to distill complex issues into simple but compelling messages–and deliver them with passion and even fury, engaging with audiences on an emotional level we haven’t seen in years. (more…)