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I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while also reaching a wide audience.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.

Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

I'm a pretty open book.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

You know, I'm pretty much an open book.