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Meeting today's critical communications challenges

Meeting today's critical communications challenges

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Meeting today's critical communications challenges

- [Instructor] Reaching an audience with your message has always been challenging, but today's communicator faces more challenges than ever. Most business people, analysts, consultants, scientists, people whose real job isn't communicating often take these challenges for granted, which is why they struggle to connect with an audience when they're sharing a report during a meeting or sharing scientific, data-driven results. One of these challenges is information overload. There's a famous quote from Eric Schmidt where he said that we generate more data now in two days than was generated from the dawn of time up until 2003. Thousands of years of data in two days. We're inundated with information. This is not news to anybody. And by the way, this quote is from 2010, so it's probably more like maybe every two hours that we create that much data now. Because of this, everyone demands to be entertained. They have to be lured into…

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