The presentation secrets of Steve Jobs
how to be insanely great in front of any audience
by Carmine Gallo · first published 2009
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"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 AudienceApple CEO Steve Jobs's wildly popular presentations have set a new global gold standard-and now 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 tohaving the master presenter himself speak di
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I was going to DL this to peruse later... then found it was a 51MB pdf. Really: got to love that slideshare. I thought this pretty weak compared to, for example, "Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs" by Carmine Gallo. And... all the plugs for SlideShare in the presentation: what's with that? Started to feel like more of an infomercial than anything. I'd recommend spending 15 minutes just scanning…
on “Steal This Presentation” ↗1) Do not attempt to live code. change your code via version control, build small videos, copy and paste... whatever you do... do not try and live code 2) Read "The presentation secrets of Steve Jobs" ... its not really about Steve Jobs so much as its about how to be a great presenter. 3) building or writing a talk is significantly less important than the delivery... which means that more of your…
on “Ask HN: What are the things keep in mind while giving/preparing for a tech talk?” ↗…a basic process. As far as literature here are a couple of classics: - Influence - the little red book of selling - SPIN selling - Secrets of closing the sale - The challenger sale - The presentation secrets of steve jobs (for presentation skills) - The rules of the game (neil strauss) - Nudge Once you get your feet under you go find a strong team with a great product and good leadership, or hang out with sales people…
on “Ask HN: How did you learn sales?” ↗…back for the rest of your life. This is the single most critical general skill for success. Good luck. Smart Brevity (Absolutely love this one! From the founders of Axios News. Also a TEDx talk.) The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (excellence for presenting). The McKinsey Way (Good info on structuring material. TED Talk: 4 Steps to Communicate Anything Clearly, according to a Scientist who teaches quantum physics to kids. [1]…
on “How to become structured and clear in communications” ↗…Challenger Sale * Guerrilla marketing (for the mental muscle) * Jeffrey Gitomer (basic but useful) * Lean Startup (for positioning) * Charisma Myth * Minimalist Entrepreneur (bits and pieces) * The presentation secrets of steve jobs (just a good book on presentations, framed around Steve Jobs to sell more) For what its worth this question comes up fairly often. It seems like technical people would like a "technical people" guide…
on “Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?” ↗There was an entire book on Jobs' presentations called Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo. Perhaps Ars wrote a review and summarized some of the top points? Guy Kawasaki has also written quite a bit about effective presentations and has a 10/20/30 rule. Ten slides, twenty…
on “The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)” ↗…technical all.) He practiced over and over. And for the diagrams he had good help from people who understood that simple diagrams are always better (avoid cognitive overload). And don't buy the book "Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs" - I looked though it and that author has no clue about how those presentations were really created.
on “Why PowerPoint should be banned” ↗