The Eyes Have It – A Matter of Life and Death

“Why do we practice this eye contact stuff with such dedication? When — in real life — will we ever require anything so tortuous?” It’s a lament of many students encountering “Presenting for Results!^®” for the first time… or the second… or the third…

Welcome to Real Life — which is — as it turns out — remarkably tortuous, dangerous, life threatening, duplicitous and fraught with disaster at every turn — at least when you leave Malibu…

In recent sessions before the United Nations General Assembly, the challenges of Statecraft were brought center stage as representatives of the Russian Federation, the State of Israel and the United States of America were each afforded time to espouse their causes. In their brief moment on the world stage, each nation was represented by an individual head of state.

In this document, as is the custom, we make no comment upon the content of the presentations but about the use — or lack thereof — of eye contact as one of the defining tools of personal signature. From our perspective, you do it well, or you do it poorly — and the world takes notice!

Today’s example: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

We grant you, the Prime Minister sets a high bar, but then, at his level, it’s a matter of life and death…

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