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Part I: Speaker

Making Good Decisions


Source: Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner
https://hbr.org/2014/11/making-good-decisions


[Rephrase 1, 17:28]

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Part II: Speed

How to Know When to Move On From the Business You Built
by J.D.Roth  |  7 Dec 2014

[Time2]
After spending several years building my business, I sold it in 2009 for a tidy sum and left it behind—the entrepreneurial dream, right?


Not really. I’d wanted out for quite a while, since I’d sacrificed my health and my marriage to build a successful brand. I was fortunate to find a buyer for my business, but I would have walked away regardless.


For many entrepreneurs, arriving at this moment is tough, especially when, as in my case, business is thriving. We’re taught that “winners never quit, and quitters never win,” but it’s not always that simple.


“Sometimes quitting is the right decision,” says Ramit Sethi, a serial entrepreneur and founder of IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com. “It can be courageous to quit. It’s important to do everything you can to succeed, but top performers know when it’s time to move on.”


In some cases, the decision is easy. If your company has been bleeding money and there’s no salvation in sight, you’ll be forced to move on. But often the warning signs are more subtle. “The worst thing is to be stuck doing something that’s not failing but not succeeding, either,” Sethi says. “You want to make your company succeed, or you want to fail fast so you can get out and try something new.”


Sethi recommends asking yourself a simple question: If you knew then what you know now, would you start your company? If the answer is no, it’s time to move on.


Entrepreneurship should be enjoyable. It can be a time of great personal growth. If you’re in it only for the money, your business and personal relationships can suffer, and your health can decline. At that point, it’s time to leave and reclaim your life.


After I left my company, I lost 50 pounds, learned Spanish and embraced travel. I started to live the life I wanted to live, not the one I was forced to live to run my business.


“Quitting doesn’t have to mean you throw in the towel and walk away,” Sethi says. “It can take many forms: shutting down your business, selling your company or changing your industry.”


Rahim Fazal founded social marketing platform Involver in 2007. Five years later, he decided to move on. (His company was acquired by Oracle.) While the decision to sell wasn’t easy, smart entrepreneurs like Fazal know when it’s time to try something new. “If the market is ripe for a sale, seize the day,” he says. “But if you’re not growing fast enough, or you’ve lost your zeal, it may be time to call it quits. And even if it’s not, by asking yourself whether it’s time to leave or not, you’ll remind yourself of what you’re fighting for.”


You may think it odd that I’m using a personal-finance column to discuss moving on from your entrepreneurial dream, but it’s really not. I can tell you this from experience: Building a business for the sake of accumulating wealth is no match for living a rich life.
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Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239178

The act of presentation
by  Janet Howd |  25 Nov 2014


[Time 3]
Performance is submission to the scrutiny and judgement of others. To do that takes courage and brings fear. But the rush of adrenaline which it causes can sometimes disable rather than enable so it must be kept under control. Visualisation is the tool actors use to gain that control.


As you are gearing up to deliver your presentation, run through it in your mind visualising only a perfect performance. If, after that effort, too much adrenaline is still sloshing around your body, quell it further by concentrating briefly on calming images of, say, a moonlit stream.


Take your pulse before and after these momentary visualisations and feel for yourself how readily your body responds to their comforting influence. The dryness in the mouth which usually accompanies fear can be cured by placing the tip of the tongue behind the front teeth and sucking it to stimulate the saliva glands.


Learning from acute observation is another tool in an actor's kit. Attend as many presentations as you can. Watch and listen carefully and make notes as soon as possible afterwards. Incorporate good points into your own work honing them to fit your own style. Avoid things which made you feel ill at ease as an observer.


Actors work with directors who watch out for them and help them to shape their roles. Most presenters have no such mentors but usually have access to a video camera. Make use of one if you can. Watch the results! Otherwise practise in front of a long mirror. You will learn so much from seeing yourself in action.


Sufficient rehearsal is both the safety net and the safety blanket of performance. As long as you have prepared well unexpected disturbances will be easily taken in your stride.
The character of each audience elicits material differently from alert, aware speakers. Know what you want to say. Know why you have to say it. Feel secure in those two objectives and you will make your listeners feel secure.
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[Time 4]
Actors know well the crucial importance of a good entrance. The power which that moment exerts over the whole of your time in front of your audience is enormous. What you look like, how you deport yourself will be assimilated in the blink of an eye, so don't blow it.


Whether addressing large groups in unfamiliar surroundings or simply presenting to a familiar group around a familiar table in a confined space - take centre stage. Take-in your audience benignly. Make them feel welcome and at ease - they are your invited guests. Be glad that they are there. Smile with your eyes as you breathe in the space you are about to fill with your words.


Focus for a second or two on an imaginary horizon beyond the furthest listeners and keep catching sight of that horizon at various points throughout your interaction with them. Words projected to that horizon will carry beyond it without fail.


Write any notes you are going to use as a script. Indicate pauses clearly. Make sure you don't leave out those short periods of silence when delivering your presentation.


Start with a sentence which is pithy and relevant to your topic then dive in to your subject with an elegant far-reaching dive so that people can perceive your trajectory. Don't immediately disappear down in to the deep-end before they have had chance to take stock of you. Believe that what makes sense in your mind will make sense in your mouth and in your listeners' ears.


Don't be surprised if your throat, back and legs ache after a presentation. Speaking and standing for long periods are both unusual muscular activities. No good actor would take on a role without fitness training, neither should any presenter. Build up stamina by degrees. Relax and breathe out fully between practise sessions and if your throat feels dry - drink!
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[Time 5]
Voice is powered by controlled use of the out breath and it is you who must learn to be the controller. When you are speaking companionably, looking-at and taking-in a group of friends, you will be animated and, even in a crowded bar, will make yourself heard; being heard in the performance of a presentation is merely an extension of that principle.


The loudness of the voice you hear when there's no hubbub behind you may surprise you - but don't hold it back. The aim is to get used to speaking with those stronger vowels and crisper consonants.


Actors train hard to form clear consonants because they know them to be crucial clarifiers of meaning. Consonants cut through because they jar or flick or buffet listeners' ears, just as percussion instruments do in any band. Make your tongue bustle to and fro and your lips pop and fizz energetically as you form these important conveyors of meaning.


Repeating words like "fuel" or "beautiful " and emphasising the "y" sound in them strongly will help your muscles to get used to the unusual task of propelling your voice quality to the front of your mouth.


Humming into the area of the mouth behind the top teeth and making your nose and top lip buzz will also focus your voice forward and is something you can do whilst walking around the office without being thought too mad.


When a song has a good melody its lyrics are easy to recall. Vary the pitch and pace of your presentation to make your message easy to recall. No subject will seem dull if delivered in a varied and tuneful way


Speaking weightily will seem unnatural at first but so does pumping iron if you've never attempted it before. Muscles learn very fast and given the chance will empower you to grab your listeners ears and wow them in the aisles!
[317 words]


[Time 6]
One of the final things actors have to do before a show hits the road is to use and be at ease with a variety of props, and, even when the show has opened check out their own props before each performance. Good presenters should do the same.
Make sure that the visual aids you've chosen to use will really add something to your message. Hiding behind a razzle-dazzle of Power Point slides is not the best way to go mainly because if a screen is up there people attend to what's on it and not to you so you're wasting your breath.


To add genuine point to your presentation use only a few, sharply relevant slides and when you want your audience to attend to them attend to them yourself. Avoid putting out the lights. Human beings tend to sleep when it is dark!


When everything is finally set, actors find their centre of gravity. They breathe out before breathing in. They stand upright, head supported by an upright back and shoulders, feet slightly apart, one foot a little in front of the other, knees slack - a posture which will keep them balanced for hours - and take-in their audience.


By finding your own centre of gravity and using your new found skills you too will be confident in the act of presentation and forge another firm link in the chain connecting us to presenters who strove for gravitas over two millennia ago.
[245 words]


Source: http://www.management-issues.com/opinion/3547/the-act-of-presentation/

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Part III: Obstacle

Hong Kong and Taiwan Losing hearts and minds

[Paraphrase 7]
THE Communist Party’s strategy for bringing the self-governing people of Taiwan into its fold has long been tricky seduction. Ply them with money and favours (and tourists from the mainland) if they play along, and with threats of cutting them off if they don’t. Let them see how happy and prosperous the people of nearby Hong Kong are under Chinese rule.


That strategy is faltering. China is not winning hearts and minds in either Taiwan or Hong Kong.


On November 29th voters in regional and municipal elections in Taiwan delivered a drubbing to the ruling Kuomintang party (KMT), which under President Ma Ying-jeou has forged closer economic links with Communist leaders in Beijing but has failed to soothe widespread dissatisfaction with the economy. More than 60% of the 23m people of Taiwan will now be governed by mayors who belong to or are supported by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which opposes union with China. Mr Ma is now an unpopular lame duck serving his second (and final) four-year term, and the DPP has the early advantage in the presidential election due to be held in early 2016.


The electoral rout of the KMT is even more worrying to Chinese leaders seen in the context of Hong Kong, where protesters have been demanding more democratic elections than promised for 2017, when the position of chief executive comes up for a popular vote. After two months of huge demonstrations, the protests seem to be near an end following violent clashes between police and demonstrators. Leaders of one protest group, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, have called for protesters to go home. Two encampments, one of them outside the government’s headquarters, remain. But Hong Kong’s leaders have wisely waited for public opinion to sour. On December 1st Joshua Wong, an 18-year-old from the student group Scholarism, turned to a new tactic: a hunger strike. Three founders of the protest movement, however, turned themselves in to the police. They were released without charge.


Anti-mainland sentiments still run high. A poll in October by Chinese University of Hong Kong found just 8.9% of respondents identifying themselves solely as “Chinese”, the lowest figure recorded in the survey—and way down on 32.1% in 1997, the year of Hong Kong’s handover. Nearly two-thirds identified themselves as a combination of Hong Konger and Chinese, but another 26.8% said they were just Hong Kongers, the highest share since 1998.


Polling tells a similar story in Taiwan. In a survey in June by National Chengchi University, 60.4% of respondents said they identified as Taiwanese, a record high and up from less than 50% when Mr Ma was first elected in 2008. Only 32.7% identified themselves as “both Taiwanese and Chinese”, a new low.


China insists the problems posed by Hong Kong and Taiwan are separate. There is some truth in this. Voters in Taiwan, dissatisfied with the economy, have been aching to repudiate Mr Ma’s party at the polls. In Hong Kong young people have been increasingly chafing over Chinese rule.


There have been bits of cross-pollination between youth movements in both places, but with little impact on events in either. (Chinese officials, for their part, blame “hostile foreign forces” from America and Britain for fomenting unrest; a committee of British parliamentarians has been denied entry to Hong Kong on the grounds that they had unfriendly intentions.)


Yet many grievances of young people in both places are strikingly similar. They are unhappy with growing inequality of wealth and are wary of integration with the mainland. Well-connected mainlanders are increasingly seen as interloping competitors for jobs. Investors from the mainland (and, in the case of Taiwan, rich Taiwanese who live on the mainland) bid up property prices. Rising numbers of tourists from the mainland have raised consumer prices (the torrent continued to increase in Hong Kong even during the protests, to 4m visitors from the mainland in October, up from 3.4m in the same month a year ago).


And in both Hong Kong and Taiwan there is a sense that the economic embrace of the mainland has enriched only the elite—the tycoons who are seen to be controlling Hong Kong and rich Taiwanese entrepreneurs who back eventual unification. Young people find it difficult to find work in either place: unemployment for 20-24-year-olds in Taiwan is around 14%, and the jobs they find pay little, as wages have stagnated
A turning point in Taiwan came early this year, when young Taiwanese were at the forefront of an occupation of the legislature that lasted for more than three weeks. The protest, known as the “Sunflower Movement”, aimed to stop the legislature ratifying a cross-strait deal that would have allowed greater liberalisation of trade in services. The pact ignited fears that an influx of Chinese businesses would overwhelm Taiwanese competitors and flood Taiwan with cheap Chinese labour. It has since been stuck in Taiwan’s legislature without being ratified.


There seems little hope of more cross-strait dealmaking now. The results in the elections for 11,130 mayors, councillors and town chiefs represented “a total collapse of people’s confidence in the government and the ruling party”, says Jason Hu, who was voted out as mayor of the central city of Taichung. The KMT, which controlled four of the six main municipalities of Taiwan before the polls, emerged as victor in just one—losing even the capital, Taipei, long a KMT stronghold.


China’s president, Xi Jinping, will not have been too shocked. He knew after the Sunflower debacle that he had work to do to build better relations with Taiwan. In June Zhang Zhijun, the director of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, became the first ministerial-level Communist official to visit Taiwan since 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek fled to the island at the end of the Chinese civil war. Mr Zhang also took the unusual step of meeting a prominent member of the typically despised DPP. There was an air of magnanimity not seen in cross-strait relations in years.


But will China adjust its approach to Taiwan, or to Hong Kong? In the wake of the election even KMT supporters seem less keen on economic co-operation with the mainland. Media in China shrug off Taiwan’s elections as “the chaos of democratic politics”, but have no suggestions for making voters happier. Perhaps it would help if citizens in both places got more of what they wanted. In Taiwan the DPP plans to deliver just that, with such things as virtually free health care for the elderly, welfare for the underprivileged and lots of social housing. (Hong Kong’s leader, Leung Chun-ying, won no sympathy for fretting aloud that “numerical” democracy would tilt policies towards the poor.)


There are signs of recognition in Beijing that the roots of discontent in Hong Kong must be addressed. On December 2nd an editorial in Global Times, a newspaper in Beijing, said that Hong Kong should manage its own problems. “The mainland shouldn’t be tempted to quell the unrest with troops too easily,” the newspaper said. “It can only bring temporary peace, but the deep-rooted cause will still linger.”
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Source: http://www.economist.com/news/china/21635515-dissatisfaction-china-hong-kong-and-taiwan-shows-up-streets-and-polls

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Speaker
A professor writes a book about how to make decision analyses, using math to make the best decision for finance and family. But one thing you probabely should know is that good decisions may not lead to good outcomes, the processes are not very fit logic.

Time2   2'34
A female successful business sold her successful brand, which gained by sacrificing her health and marriage. Then the article talks about the right time to move on.  Quitting a business is not mean a failure, it helps one to live a better life.

Time3   1'53
Ways to make a better presentation:
Observe others action.
Sufficient rehearsal.

Time4   1'41
Make ur audience involved.
Smile, relax, and drink.

Time5   1'40
Control your voice stronger.
Practice pronunciation.

Time6   1'24
Find your props.
Use the light properly.
Find your own gravity---confidence.

Obstacle   7'45
China doesn't win hearts and minds in HK and Taiwan.
Because HK is under a long protestion and Taiwan is during a election that is not optimistic for mainland.
Data show a high movenment of anti-mainland. And the main reason is economic recession---HK youth can not find a job and Taiwan fear the mainland business competitors.
Sunflower Movement, againsting legilature in services in Taiwan, raises Xidada's attention. But he is not too shocked.
So will mainland adjust approch to HK and Taiwan? Beijing leaves HK to itself. Although the influence is temporary peace, the deep-rooted cause will still linger.

apooolo

The sequence is opposite.
obtacle 8'58 1175 130wpm Hong Kong and Taiwan have some chaos rightnow, related to the Mainland. the situation in Taiwan/Hong Kong, reasons and aftermath.
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掌管 2        00:01:56.88        331 168wpm
掌管 1        00:02:34.20        498 195wpm

Hendy

掌管 6        00:07:20.07        00:21:03.15
掌管 5        00:01:49.85        00:13:43.07
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吐槽猪

Thanks for share ~ Last passage is interesting !haha ~
time2 3:51.04
It is hard to sell your company and quit when you are working for a entership.But sometimes It can make you better
and let you start a new life.
time3 3:23.94
We can learn from the actor how to overcome the fear and present a perfect performance .
Visualization:imagine your performance in your mind
Learn form others:try more,learn more
You must rehearse your presentation often.
time4 2:02.45
How to deliver a good preformance?
Prepare for your entrance ,which have an important impression on others.
Stand on the central of stage and show kindness to all people.
Write notes before you give your performance and leave a few constant in it.
time 5
Controlling your voice well is very important for you .Try to speak some special consennants ,make your voice clearly,
change the pace of your talking.
time6 2:35.47
Other things you need to prepare before the presentation
Final ,you need to check out your props .Use ppt less and add little points if you really need it .
time7 11
Most of Citizens in Taiwen and Hongkong have lost mind in the relationship with mainland.Communists have sent official
to confer with authotities in Taiwan and HK.As for the issuse in HK,mainland tends to allow local government to solve them .

peggychianglove

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TIME2 2:52 173wpm Sale your company and quit the business is a tough decision, but sometime it's good for an
TIME3 1:39 200wpm Method of acting.
TIME4 1:35 197wpm How to give a presentation.
TIME5 1:25 223wpm How to make your audience concentrate to your speech.
TIME6 1:07 219wpm Other methods to make a good presentation such as show a powerpoint.
TIME7 10:51108wpm HONGKONG and TAIWAN both have problem now. The government of China want Taiwan to see the prosperity in Hongkong that under the mainland's control, but Hongkong have problem too. Recently, there is a serious protest in Hongkong to fight for the right of the Hongkonger. Now there is large amount of people who think they are just a Hongkonger but not a Chinese. Taiwan has about 69% people who think they should be a Taiwanese which is the highest since 1949. And the leader of Hongkong and Taiwan who is closed to mainland is not supported by their people. People in Hongkong and Taiwan think that mainland will hurt their employment and economy. Because there are many cheap labors and merchandise from mainland. Of course Beijing think they should make a good relationship with Hongkong and Taiwan, but the Hongkong should solve the problem completely by himself.