Executive Speeches articles from April 2000

Executive Speeches archives from April 2000

Race to the Horizon: E-Commerce in Chemicals.(Transcript)
April 1, 2000... I was flipping through CIO Magazine the other day, thinking about this conference, when I saw an ad that was simply headlined "The Horizon Broadens." I don't remember what the ad was for, but I realized that that phrase--"The Horizon...

Ignite the Caring Spirit.(Transcript)
April 1, 2000... A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Natasha Crawford, a new employee in our training and development department. Natasha joined Booz* Allen about six months ago after graduating from the "Training Futures" program run by Northern...

The Global Economic Outlook: Threats and Opportunities for the U.S. Mining Industry.(Transcript)
April 1, 2000... It's a very special pleasure to be invited once again to address the National Mining Association's annual convention. I don't know how many of you attended my first speech some years ago. I was the last speaker in the morning and the previous...

The World Before Us.(Transcript)
April 1, 2000... Thank you for that kind introduction. And hello, everyone. It's great to be back in Los Angeles and in the company of so many fine people today. As you can well imagine, your city and your state have always been important places for UPS....

Motivational Speakers: The Integrity of Inspiration.(Transcript)
April 1, 2000... In the process of writing a book on how to motivate high performance through oral presentations and speeches, it occurred to me that a neglected area of research is that of the motivational speaker. I am referring here to that group of...

Disclosure in Internet Times.(Transcript)
April 1, 2000... In the summer of 1968, 1 was working as a runner on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. My job was to pick up the punch cards from the reporters recording the trades, feed them into a card reader, which in turn fed the computer that...

Insights on Speechwriting: Taking the Long, Long View.(Transcript)
April 1, 2000... Fellow speechwriters: All of us have our personal stories on how we got into the speechwriting business. For me, it happened during the Johnson years--that's LBJ not Andrew. One morning when I arrived at my office in the White House to tackle...

Liberty and Responsibility.(Transcript)
April 1, 2000... I want to begin by talking a little about Eric Harris and Dylan Kliebold, the two young men at Columbine High School in Colorado. You will remember they are the teenagers who planned and then carried out the slaughter of their fellow students...

Two Lives.(Transcript)
April 1, 2000... I am highly honored... profoundly humbled... and deeply appreciative in accepting the Ronald H. Brown Corporate Bridge-Builder Award. Ron Brown was a very special person who left an indelible mark on this country, American politics and...