PRESENTATION SECRETS OF STEVE JOBS : HOW TO BE INSANELY GREAT IN FRONT OF ANY AUDIENCE

I generally don't write reviews but this book deserves one. You won't regret buying this book and your presentations will become several levels better after reading.

In description it is written 296 pages but in book it is only 238. why so ?

Its true that steve jobs was a great presenter and this book does capture the essence and style of his presentation skills. This book is worth a read.

Excellent book. A very helpful and useful book to learn so good techniques of Steve jobs.Kudos to the author

If you make regular presentations then this is the book you need to read

This is meant for those entrepreneurs who wish to blast their presentation in the cool guy manner. This book is a complete study on the each and every aspects of jobs presenting method

An amazing book with an amazing paper quality. I think at 474, it is too costly. Anyways satisfied with the masterpiece.

Be warned, after reading this book, your presentation skills will never be the same again.If you are reading this review, my suggestion is to quit reading the reviews and just buy the book already!

I do many presentations, meetings with customers, etc. and this book is simply... PERFECT! PERFECT! PERFECT!!!I would even say... it is MAGIC! You read 2 pages and you understand that it is talking exactly about your everyday life!Full of ideas, concrete suggestions, strategies, techniques. Simply perfect. I read it again and again once a year. It is a super must have!

This is a good news, bad news book. The good news is that there are some great tips in this book. The bad news is that it shares that Steve Jobs spent about one hour of preparation time for each minute of presentation. I suspect that if we all did that, we'd all be half way to delivering great presentations without ever reading this book. So, if you're looking for a short cut, this book isn't for you. But, if you want to copy the best and put in the work, this book is very accessible and provides some great insights.

Disclaimer: I am an Apple lover and a big fan of Steve Jobs, very grateful and appreciative of products that I have found to be transformative. I greatly respect his dedication to the passionate pursuit of excellence.I have always admired the oratorical skills of Steve Jobs, particularly the brilliant Apple keynote speeches and his iconic commencement address at Stanford. I domy fair share of public speaking and aspire to have the smooth style, brevity and enthusiasm that are intrinsic to the grand master. Carmine Gallo does an inspiring job in deconstructing the key elements of the Jobs' oratorical techniques so as to understand how to deliver a phenomenal presentation. This book was an easy and interesting read and I found it to be of great utility and immediately integrated the tenets and secrets of Steve Job's rhetorical skills and passionate style into my own public addresses, whether the audience be one person or an auditorium-full of people. In the following words, I will summarize the salient points made by Carmine Gallo.Regarding the use of data during a presentation, make it specific, relevant, and contextual. Speak in simple, clear, and direct language. Unclutter and eliminate redundant language, buzzwords, and jargon. Edit, edit, and edit some more. Gallo references Kawasaki's qualities of an outstanding demonstration: simple, short, sweet, swift and substantial.Make an effort to stroke the dopamine receptors of your audience. After all, your customers are your sales force and the most potent evangelists for your cause.Dopamine greatly aids memory and information processing and if you can get the brain to put a chemical "post-it" note on an idea, it will be more robustly processed and easily remembered. Powerful terms, when integrated them into your talks, will help release the dopamine, as will an emotionally charged delivery. SJ loved the following zippy words: amazing; incredible; gorgeous; insanely great; coolest; buckle up; put on your shoulder harness; lust object; stunning; miraculously engineered.Presentation skills are fundamental. It is important to maintain good eye contact and positive body language: an open body without fidgeting or other distracting habits without looking back at slides or hiding behind the lectern. The delivery should vary the vocal volume, inflection, and cadence. Filler words should be avoided and pauses should be used in their place. Unleash your inner Zen by using very few words and plenty of compelling visuals. An energetic delivery is quintessential--passion in the voice, a bounce in the step, and a smile on the face are inspirational. Enthusiasm makes one likable. Share your passion for your, subject and your enthusiasm will be contagious.One's speaking style should be informal and casual. Never read slides or turn your back to the audience. Slides should be highly visual with one key idea only. Memorize the one key idea per slide. Practice the entire presentation without notes simply using slides as prompter. Spontaneity is the result of planned practice!Steve Jobs consistently adheres to the rule of three: the human mind can only consume three points of information in short-term memory. Our brains crave meaning before detail, so deliver the big picture before filling in the details. If you can't describe your product or service in 140 characters or less, go back to the drawing board. Every great book or movie has a hero and a villain. Consider a presentation in the same way--a theatrical event complete with a protagonist and antagonist. Jobs uses the rhetorical device of raising a question and providing the answer. Your audience is asking what's in it for me? Don't leave them guessing. The villain can be a competitor or in many cases a problem in need of a solution.Most presenters have more information than they can easily convey in a short amount of time. Don't try to squeeze in everything. Simplify communications. If you want to deliver a Jobs-worthy presentation, avoid content overload. The 10-minute rule simply states that your audience will lose attention after 10 minutes. At the 10-minute mark introduce a break in the action: a video, stories, another speaker, and a demo all can be effective. A prop is anything to take the attention away from the presentation and gives the audience a break from the slides. They appreciate the diversion.In summary, Carmine Gallo's book is a winner and will prove to be of great help in improving the communication skills of anybody doing a presentation. I only wish that the presenters at many of the medical lectures that I have attended had read this book!Andrew Siegel, M.D.AUTHOR OF: PROMISCUOUS EATING--UNDERSTANDING AND ENDING OUR SELF-DESTRUCTIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD

This is unusual in that the author is not selling his ideas but offering a guide to how an acknowledged master did it. The book is full of detailed comparisons and examples and although slightly limited by concentrating on Steve Jobs, it offers something useful for most people who give presentations. If you have been at it for a while, you have probably stumbled across some of the tips but I would suggest there is something to learn for most people.It is easy to read, and the simpler ideas can be put straight into practice. If you have depended on death by Powerpoint and are a huge fan of bullet points this may be bad news for you! However if you wish to improve the effectiveness of your communication it is definitely worth a look. Like other reviewers, I suggest you accompany it with one of the books on picture presentation. Whilst Gallo does talk about this, The Zen Presentation book goes into more detail and compares poor with adequate and what the author regards as the optimum.If you can only afford one book I would recommend this.

Très bon livre, à lire et à relire, ça donne une vision globale d'apple, de steve jobs et bien sûr une bonne présentation.livraison rapide