The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

by Carmine Gallo

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The Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Updated to include Steve Jobs's iPad and iPad2 launch presentations “ The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs reveals the operating system behind any great presentation and provides you with a quick-start guide to design your own passionate interfaces with your audiences.” —Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points and The Activist Audience Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s wildly popular presentations have set a new global gold standard—and now show more this step-by-step guide shows you exactly how to use his crowd-pleasing techniques in your own presentations. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs is as close as you'll ever get to having the master presenter himself speak directly in your ear. Communications expert Carmine Gallo has studied and analyzed the very best of Jobs's performances, offering point-by-point examples, tried-and-true techniques, and proven presentation secrets in 18 "scenes," including: Develop a messianic sense of purpose Reveal the Conquering hero Channel your inner Zen Stage your presentation with props Make it look effortless With this revolutionary approach, you’ll be surprised at how easy it is to sell your ideas, share your enthusiasm, and wow your audience the Steve Jobs way. “No other leader captures an audience like Steve Jobs does and, like no other book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs captures the formula Steve uses to enthrall audiences.” —Rob Enderle, The Enderle Group “Now you can learn from the best there is—both Jobs and Gallo. No matter whether you are a novice presenter or a professional speaker like me, you will read and reread this book with the same enthusiasm that people bring to their iPods." —David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR and World Wide Rave show less

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Good overview of presenter techniques, using Steve Jobs as an example of a great presenter. Essentially the image-heavy, single concept per slide, engaging, "fun" style which is pretty widely accepted now (vs old style hierarchical bullets). There are a bunch of specific good tips throughout, so even for an experienced presenter it is a worthwhile book.
In general, this book had a lot of great presentation tips relevant especially to people in the business world but also to me as a teacher. The ideas are really simple to grasp, but Gallo uses more examples than really necessarily, frequently resummarizing the same Jobs presentation in multiple chapters as an example of multiple strategies. The book itself is supposed to be structured like a Jobs presentation, but it lost its elegance with all of the filler that had to be added for it to be a proper book, rather than a manual. Still, I highly recommend for anyone interested in improving their presentation skills.
Nice book ...

Suffers from some repetition, but I think it's practical, insightful, and an easy read.

Hope it has effect on my presentations. Steve is a master !
Very insightful telling of skills and principles of presentations, if not the character of Stephen Jobs himself. Any presenter or teacher can never acquire too much from quality authors such as Gallo.
I got a lot of good tips from this book, which will come in handy since I recently rejoined Toastmasters! Steve Jobs was a master presenter, that's for sure. RIP.
Great ideas, nicely presented. Able to utilize in classes and presentations.
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Carmine Gallo is the award-winning author of the international bestsellers The innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs and Talk Like Ted, among others. He is a popular Forbes.com column keynote speaker, and communications coach whose techniques have been implemented by some of world's most admired brands.

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Steve Jobs
First words
Steve Jobs is the most captivating communicator on the world stage. No one else comes close.
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Save your bullet points for grocery lists.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Jobs has followed his heart his whole life. Follow yours to captivate your audience. You'll bo one step closer to delivering insanely great presentations.

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658.452Applied science & technologyManagement & public relationsGeneral managementExecutiveCommunicationPresentations
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