Last week’s breakfast speaker was Mike Easterling, a “Baby Boomer”, one of the millions of babies born between 1946 and 1964. He eventually will be in the ranks of retirees who outnumber the working population—a dramatic shift in all of the world’s communities.

For his livelihood—and for the fun of it —Mike Easterling is a humorist in the corporate world. What can humor do? It helps rapport, gains attention, makes you stand out, makes presentation memorable, and makes people listen. Above all, Mike emphasizes getting people to laugh at themselves and the situation—not at others.

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