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Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) (平装)
by Garr Reynolds
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Presentation, Communication |
| Market price: ¥ 360.00
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¥ 288.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Cutting through a lot of the silly noise about PowerPoint and getting right to how it can be used effectively, memorably and beautifully, this book a mastery of style and substance. |
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Seth Godin,Speaker and Blogger, USA
<2008-04-10 00:00>
Please don't buy this book! Once people start making better presentations, mine won’t look so good. (But if you truly want to learn what works and how to do it right, Garr is the man to learn from.) |
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Nancy Duarte,CEO, Duarte Design, USA
<2008-04-10 00:00>
Garr is a beacon of hope for frustrated audiences everywhere. His design philosophy and fundamental principles bring life to messages and can invigorate careers. His principles of simplicity are as much a journey of the soul as they are restraint of the mouse. |
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Merlin Mann, USA
<2008-04-10 00:00>
Presentation Zen is just fantastic. Best of all it's not another recipe book about “how to make slides” - this is about re-imagining how your entire presentation will work together as a persuasive and integrated show, from conception through delivery. Awesome. |
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Gonzalo Jimenez (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-10 00:00>
'Presentation Zen' starts with a very bold proposal, you have to change and stop following the way everyone uses PowerPoint, forget bullet points, use of too much text, lot of ideas cramped in one slide, not to use presentation as contents holder, etc.
Like in Zen philosophy, the first things you need to recognize are the flaws in your reality, and then embrace a new way of thinking and doing. In the case of presentations and keynotes, you need to understand how to effectively share ideas (read 'Made To Stick'), and the logic of a changing world (read 'A Whole New Mind'), and apply this to build, simple, emotional, easy to follow presentations.
This book applies, through a lot of analogies, elements of the japanese culture because it stands out about thinking and executing everyday things.
It's not just a book that teaches you a new technique, it encourages your heart and mind to be creative, innovative and free. And the latter its what makes this book even more valuable. |
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Sergejs Boginskis (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-10 00:00>
A lot of ideas for presenters accumulated in the book that are useful for entire presentation process, from the beginning when looking for opportunity to make a presentation till the end when on stage presenting the result.
The main idea, the Book gives you APPROACH, NOT strict guidelines; like laws or school rules [you must add this, you must use that]. Don't be confused with that (as I was at the beginning, when started to read), book does not contain any magic tips or openings, that will make you the best presenter in the world. It gives the ideas and experience, that you can use for the advantage.
Book starts with description about ekiben, special type of food that is sold in Japan trains. Author finds ekiben great balanced type of food, which he calls a pleasant way to end the day. Author wonders, where is the problem to make all the presentation in the same way, balanced and harmonized...
You will find plenty of author's thoughts and ideas, that can be very helpful for your future presentations and hints how to find the balance.
Book provides great examples, one of them is from Seth Godinh [if I'm not mistaken], when presenting about pollution in your city, what is better
1) four bullet points about pollution data
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2) photo of bunch of dead birds, some smog or even diseased lung, and talk give this information enclosed in four bullets.
Which is better and more effective, well I think the answer is clear, and there are others examples too.
There are other examples and ideas, that you may find interesting and learn to make your presentations better (at least it worked for me). However, I'm just rookie in this stuff.
This Book should be placed for your must have category, if you have any relation to presentations. |
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