Today machines can do so many things better, cheaper, faster, and smarter than human beings. Except one thing: communication. Today, if you can’t engage, connect, and influence, you can’t succeed. Your only key differentiator in getting ahead and staying ahead in just about anything is an excellent speaking skill. Time is money, but communication is wealth–whether it’s financial wealth, intellectual wealth, or social wealth. People at the top in any field have one thing in common: They are world-class communicators–Warren Buffett, Mark Cuban, Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, and Sheryl Sandberg to name just a few. What’s their secret? They have been cultivating their communication skill for a long time. Speaking well is a lifelong skill that you must begin cultivating now (if you haven’t begun already). And you must keep working hard on that skill, since every interaction you have has a potential to be high stakes. The good news is that you can develop this skill. Speaking well is similar to a high-performance Honda engine: The only relevant variable is the horsepower you need to deliver your message. In other words, you must know how to perform, whether you are speaking to one, to a few, or to many. If you start now to improve this skill, it will pay dividends today, tomorrow, a year from now, and even fifty years from now. This book provides a practical approach for improving your speaking skill in ninety days by focusing on three hacks : the content hack, the message hack, and the performance hack. You control your success, and this book shows you techniques that empower you to bank this critical skill, which you need to get ahead and stay ahead. The only thing you must bring is your motivation, which, as the book points out, is next day’s deliberate practice. It’s really not that complicated. If you are willing to practice well and hard, then you too can master this skill and learn to speak the way people at the top do.
