8. The Strong Start

WHEN YOU BEGIN your presentation or speech, you don’t have to be funny and you don’t have to be clever. But you should never, ever be boring. So to make sure you don’t get off on the wrong foot with your audience, plunge right in.

The POWER formula goes like this:

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