Off The Cuff

Despite having had a number of opportunities to do so throughout my career, I’ve never progressed beyond being an average public speaker.

Thankfully I don’t have any particular phobias about it, and I can do a decent job relaying facts while being mildly interesting, but I’m far from a great orator, especially when I have to speak on the fly.

Still, every once in a while I’m happy with my ad libbing. This past week I spoke at a conference, and came up with this turn of phrase that I quite liked:

Universal problems are often best-solved through many local partnerships.

Perhaps that’s why I enjoy building for state government so much?