Professionals have lots
of role models: the challenge is developing their own personality and style
rather than trying to be a copy of someone else’s. In a large organization you
have to be good at projecting a message to lots of people: Steve Wynn was great
at this and I tried to watch and learn from him. I found that to seem like a
speech was extemporaneous meant you had to know the topic so well that you
could speak about it easily, and to keep an audience’s attention you had to
gesture and look like you were speaking to a small group of friends. I
developed my own style instead of trying to be a second-rate version of his.
Look for people you admire and note the traits that make them what they are and
then practice putting those into your own style. Being a first-rate
professional means being the best you can be every day.
Judy Garland (1922 –1969): American singer, actress,
vaudevillian, and recording artist.
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