"A group of people"

January 13, 2007 (Press Release) -- I treat a group of people as just that! A group of people is comprised of any number of people that form or are formed into a group. A group is singular not a plural. When I am speaking to two people in a board room or fifty thousand people in a stadium I am speaking to a group as in singular. I am speaking to the group!

While speaking to a group I do not comment on things that are done or said by individuals in the group. If I am speaking to eleven hundred anesthesiologists, in Boston, and someone yells out, “You’re full of condensed milk”, I have no obligation to defend against being ‘Full of condensed milk’. Nor do I have a need to argue that I am not ‘Full of condensed milk’! I am disciplined to ignore anything the does not behoove me to notice.

If I am speaking to a group of lady bartenders, in Amarillo, TX and one of them says: I’d like to buy you a drink”, I might stray from my planned course and announce Ambassador Hotel, suite 1420. Then, after the girls chuckle a bit, I would immediately return to my game plan.

This is important because many a presentation has been ruined because the speaker let the group or someone in the group take the control of the proceedings!