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Communicating in the Next Century

Published Tuesday, June 01, 2004

For more than 2,000 years public speaking was the most useful communication skill. Today it is probably interviewing. I had a student who led a class project. He began each meeting with a motivational speech. I thought they were great speeches, but his classmates were rolling their eyes and passing notes. What was wrong? Speeches are becoming anachronistic, not because we have forgotten how to give them but because we no longer require them. E-mail, cell phones, the daily routine of formal and informal meetings, and omnipresent news media have made each of us part of an information ...

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