When we learn to present naked, we reach our audiences by communicating the essence of the message, stripping away all that is unnecessary and embracing the ideas of simplicity, clarity, honesty, integrity, and passion. If "slideware" is used, the slides never steal the show or rise above serving a strong but simple supportive role. The ideas in the presentation may or may not be radical, earth shattering, or new, but there is freshness to the approach and content that makes a lasting impression. In this invaluable resource from the author for the best-selling books Presentation Zen and Presentation Zen Design, you will discover how to get to the core of your message and deliver presentations that are as natural as they are memorable. Whether you are just in the planning stages or need advice for a talk that begins in an hour, you'll find wisdom in The Naked Presenter that you can use to connect deeply with your audience and deliver a great presentation.

Product description **Award Winner, International Book Awards (Category: Business - Marketing & Advertising)** WHAT IF the way you have been delivering presentations so far was all wrong? In Edge Presentation, author and corporate trainer Ben A. Ratje, lays bare the secrets on how to deliver presentations based on trust. As it turns out: Trust is the ultimate Edge in presentations. Building on his former book Presentation Latte, this book now shares further insights into The 7 Principles of Presentation™ and what it takes to be a great presenter in the 21st century. Here are a few of the things you will learn: • The 5 Trust Factors for Presentations • How to Stop Death-by-PowerPoint (and yet why you shouldn’t follow all slide design rules) • The Most Important Success Factor for Any Presentation • Why Your Audience Often Has No Clue What You’re Talking About (even though you think they do) • The 7 Principles of Presentation™ • Why Boredom Will Kill You More than It Will Your Audience • The OFS Method™ • Why VAPorizing Your Audience is Actually a Good Thing About the Author Ben A. Ratje is the bestselling author of 'Presentation Latte' and author of 'Edge Innovation' and the award-winning 'Edge Presentation'. He is the founder and CEO of INFLUENCE7, a corporate training firm serving FORTUNE Global 500 and other large companies. Ben's corporate training and consulting clients have included Microsoft, Siemens, Nike, Coca-Cola, Samsung, Sanofi, LG, Medtronic, SK and many more. He is an international, serial entrepreneur who owns three businesses and currently lives with his wife in Seoul, South Korea.

No matter where you are on the organizational ladder, the odds are high that you've delivered a high-stakes presentation to your peers, your boss, your customers, or the general public. Presentation software is one of the few tools that requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. But unlike verbal skills, effective visual expression is not easy, natural, or actively taught in schools or business training programs. slide:ology fills that void.Written by Nancy Duarte, President and CEO of Duarte Design, the firm that created the presentation for Al Gore's Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, this book is full of practical approaches to visual story development that can be applied by anyone. The book combines conceptual thinking and inspirational design, with insightful case studies from the world's leading brands. With slide:ology you'll learn to:Connect with specific audiences Turn ideas into informative graphics Use sketching and diagramming techniques effectively Create graphics that enable audiences to process information easily Develop truly influential presentations Utilize presentation technology to your advantageMillions of presentations and billions of slides have been produced -- and most of them miss the mark. slide:ology will challenge your traditional approach to creating slides by teaching you how to be a visual thinker. And it will help your career by creating momentum for your cause.

Give effective, dynamic, and memorablepresentations just like Steve JobsBased on the author’s article on Businessweek.com,which became one of the site’s most popular downloads,The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs breaks downthe 10 elements that make Steve Jobs’ legendary presentationsso outstanding. Readers implementing theseprinciples to their own presentations are sure to leavea lasting impression, dazzle their audiences, and becomea hard act to follow at any conference or seminar.An enhanced ebook is now available with 12 demonstration videos of Jobs' sure-fire presentation secrets! Select the Kindle Edition with Audio/Video from the available formats.

A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools.Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available.Organized into four sections, "Nuts and Bolts," "Special Effects," "Blueprints for Stories," and "Useful Habits," Writing Tools is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature. This new edition includes five brand new, never-before-shared tools.Accessible, entertaining, inspiring, and above all, useful for every type of writer, from high school student to novelist, Writing Tools is essential reading.

A professional “pitching coach” for one of the world’s largest marketing conglomerates, Jon Steel shares his secrets and explains how you can create presentations and pitches that win hearts, minds, and new business. He identifies the dos and don’ts and uses real-world examples to prove his points. If you make pitches for new business, this is the perfect book for you.

"Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results." —James Clear, author of Atomic Habits"If you value your time, your focus, or your relationships, this book is essential reading. I'm putting these ideas into practice." —Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous MindNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE OUTSTANDING WORKS OF LITERATURE (OWL) AWARDINCLUDED IN THE TOP 5 BEST PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY AUDIBLEINCLUDED IN THE TOP 20 BEST BUSINESS AND LEADERSHIP BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY AMAZONFEATURED IN THE AMAZON BOOK REVIEW NEWSLETTER, JANUARY 2020GOODREADS BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY OF 2019 FINALISTYou sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold.What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused? What if you had the power to become "indistractable?"International bestselling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley's handbook for making technology habit-forming. Five years after publishing Hooked, Eyal reveals distraction's Achilles' heel in his groundbreaking new book.In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more.Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us.Inside, Eyal overturns conventional wisdom and reveals:• Why distraction at work is a symptom of a dysfunctional company culture—and how to fix it• What really drives human behavior and why "time management is pain management"• Why your relationships (and your sex life) depend on you becoming indistractable• How to raise indistractable children in an increasingly distracting worldEmpowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides practical, novel techniques to control your time and attention—helping you live the life you really want.

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The pitch is the essence of modern business. In pitching for new business, ideas and emotional intelligence dominate. And the skills of the pitch can also apply to just about every significant personal transaction in your life.The ultimate how-to book; a mixture of mentoring, graphics, anthropology, market research and modern Machiavellianism, Life’s a Pitch shows you how to handle human transactions and prepare you for success. Whether at a sales conference in corporate conference room hell or over lunch at a glamorous restaurant, a pitch is not about transferring information, it’s about transferring power. It is business, but it is also theatre, and the results of a successful pitch are, quite simply, money and power.Part inspirational manual for business, part guidebook to a successful and happy social life, Life’s a Pitch is the result of an accumulated half-century of (mostly successful) pitching by the authors and will transform the way you think about the art of persuasion forever.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA must-read insider’s guide to creating unforgettable speeches and changing people's minds.Done right, a talk can electrify a room and transform an audience’s worldview; it can be more powerful than anything in written form. This “invaluable guide” (Publishers Weekly) explains how the miracle of powerful public speaking is achieved, and equips you to give it your best shot. There is no set formula, but there are tools that can empower any speaker.Since taking over TED in 2001, Chris Anderson has worked with all the TED speakers who have inspired us the most, and here he shares insights from such favorites as Sir Ken Robinson, Salman Khan, Monica Lewinsky, and more— everything from how to craft your talk’s content to how you can be most effective on stage.

What if charisma could be taught?The charisma myth is the idea that charisma is a fundamental, inborn quality—you either have it (Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Oprah) or you don’t. But that’s simply not true, as Olivia Fox Cabane reveals. Charismatic behaviors can be learned and perfected by anyone.Drawing on techniques she originally developed for Harvard and MIT, Cabane breaks charisma down into its components. Becoming more charismatic doesn’t mean transforming your fundamental personality. It’s about adopting a series of specific practices that fit in with the personality you already have.The Charisma Myth shows you how to become more influential, more persuasive, and more inspiring.