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Steve Jobs transformed business presentations into an art form. Ask business professionals anywhere in the world to describe the “Steve Jobs style” and most will have an answer. It’s irresistible, entertaining, and engaging.

Today Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Marc Benioff, Former Ford CEO Alan Mulally, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, and many other leaders around the world emulate the presentation style Steve Jobs made famous, and the one Carmine Gallo popularized in his Wall Street Journal bestseller, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs—one of the most popular public-speaking books in the world and recently classified as “a business classic.”

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Apple 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 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 that work every time. 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.

Watch Carmine Gallo describe how you can inspire, motivate, and lead your team to do "insanely great" things.

“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

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• Publisher McGraw Hill
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• Dimensions 14.73 x 2.24 x 21.59 cm
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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 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

Table of contents

• The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
• SCENE 1 Plan in Analog
• SCENE 2 Answer the One Question That Matters Most
• SCENE 3 Develop a Messianic Sense of Purpose
• SCENE 4 Create Twitter-Like Headlines
• SCENE 5 Draw a Road Map
• SCENE 6 Introduce the Antagonist
• SCENE 7 Reveal the Conquering Hero
• INTERMISSION 1 Obey the Ten-Minute Rule
• SCENE 8 Channel Their Inner Zen
• SCENE 9 Dress Up Your Numbers
• SCENE 10 Use “Amazingly Zippy” Words
• SCENE 11 Share the Stage
• SCENE 12 Stage Your Presentation with Props
• SCENE 13 Reveal a “Holy Shit” Moment
• INTERMISSION 2 Schiller Learns from the Best
• SCENE 14 Master Stage Presence
• SCENE 15 Make It Look Effortless
• SCENE 16 Wear the Appropriate Costume
• SCENE 17 Toss the Script
• SCENE 18 Have Fun
• Encore: One More Thing
• Postscript: Steve Jobs by the Book

Product information

• Title: The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
• Author(s): Carmine Gallo
• Release date: October 2009
• Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
• ISBN: 9780071636759

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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 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 purposeReveal the Conquering heroChannel your inner ZenStage your presentation with propsMake 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

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“It’s not about the software; it’s about the story”

How to create a presentation like steve jobs.

As a communication and presentation skills coach, I often get asked, “How do I make my slides look like a Steve Jobs presentation?” The first thing I tell them is that they do not have to use Apple presentation software (Keynote), although it’s a beautifully refined program. I’ve seen gorgeous PowerPoint designs as well, especially with PowerPoint 2007. So it’s not about the software; it’s about the story. Steve Jobs treats presentations like theatrical events complete with heroes and villains, a supporting cast, stage props and visually stunning backdrops—slides. I know designers who have actually worked with Steve Jobs at Apple, so I wrote an entire book on how to create and deliver a presentation the Steve Jobs way. While there are about eighteen techniques that Jobs uses, one stands out. I call it “unleashing your inner Zen.” Here are some tips on creating a presentation the Steve Jobs way.

Picture Superiority

A Steve Jobs presentation is strikingly simple, visual and devoid of bullet points. That’s right—no bullet points. Ever. Of course, this raises the question, would a PowerPoint presentation without bullet points still be a PowerPoint presentation? The answer is yes, and a much more interesting one. New research into cognitive functioning—how the brain works—shows that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information. In fact, memory processing is aided by pictures. Scientists call it picture superiority: ideas are more easily recalled when presented as text and images instead of text alone.

Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication

When Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air in January, 2008, the most memorable slide showed the notebook computer being pulled from a manila inter-office envelope to show just how thin it really was. No words could equal the power and simplicity of that image. The average PowerPoint has forty words. It’s hard to find forty words in ten slides of a Steve Jobs presentation. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” said Jobs quoting from one of his heroes, Leonardo da Vinci. Jobs keeps his slides simple by eliminating unnecessary words, charts and other eye clutter. The influential German painter, Hans Hoffman once said, “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” By removing clutter—extraneous features and information—from his products and presentations, Jobs achieves the ultimate goal: ease of use and clarity.

To gain a fuller appreciation of Jobs’ simple slide creations, watch the first few minutes of his  keynote presentation at the Macworld Expo, January, 2008 . The first several slides have one or two words per slide. When Jobs reviews the new products that Apple introduced in the previous year, the slide simply reads: 2007. Jobs thanks his customers for their support and the slide reads: Thank you.

Confidence, Time and Practice

Creating simple, visual slides requires three things: confidence, time and practice. First, confidence. Slides should not take center stage. The audience’s attention should be directed at you, the speaker. The slides compliment the speaker. That means you had better know your material and have the confidence to deliver your message with conviction. The second thing it requires is time. It’s easy to create cluttered slides—just write everything you want to say on the slide. Thinking visually about displaying information takes more effort, but it’s worth the time to stand apart. And the third thing it requires is practice. Because you’re delivering information that is not on the slide, you can’t read from the slide. You have to commit the information to memory and use the slide as a prompt to deliver the idea. Steve Jobs rehearsed for many, many hours over many weeks to get everything just right.

Steve Jobs may be a hard act to follow, but once you start using some of his techniques in your own presentations, you’ll be hard to forget.

Carmine Gallo  is a communications coach for the world’s most admired brands.

He is a sought after speaker and author of the new book,  The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience.

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Steve Jobs turned presentations into an art form because he approached keynote presentations like an artist. Musicians, actors, and designers master their crafts over many hours— 10,000 hours , according to writers like Malcolm Gladwell. Mastering public s peaking skills is no exception and Steve Jobs was an artist in the field.

In the new book, Becoming Steve Jobs , authors Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli reveal some new insights into the intense preparation that made Steve Jobs a master presenter. According to the authors, “Steve would rehearse endlessly and fa stidiously . ” The book contains e xclusive be hind-the- scenes photos of Jobs, alone on stage, reviewing scripts the day before a MacWorld keynote . In another photo Jobs is sitting off to one side of the stage watching Apple vice president Phil Schiller practice his portion of a presentation . “Rehearsals for product presentations were always intense.”

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Bill Gates appeared at some of the events along with Jobs. “I was never in his league,” Gates told the authors about Jobs’ presentation skills. “I mean, it was just amazing to see how precisely he would rehearse. And if he’s about to go onstage, and his support people don’t have the things right, you know, he is really, really tough on them. He’s even a bit nervous because it’s a big performance. But then he’s on, and it’s quite an amazing thing.”

Steve Jobs made presentations look effortless because he put in a lot of effort to get everything right.

“I mean, his whole thing of knowing exactly what he’s going to say, but up on stage saying it in such a way that he is trying to make you think he’s thinking it up right then… ” Gates said before he trailed off and laughed as he recalled the moment.

The authors reveal new information about Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement address, one of the most quoted commencement speeches in modern history. Jobs wrote the speech himself and walked around the house for days, reciting it over and over. “The kids watching their dad spring past them in the same kind of trance he’d sometimes enter in the days before MacWorld. Several times he read it  to the whole family dinner.” On the morning of June 16, 2005, Steve Jobs woke up with butterflies in his stomach. “I’d almost never seen him more nervous” Jobs’ wife Laurene recalls. Jobs was nervous because the performance mattered to him and he wanted to get it right.

Laurene also told the authors the speech almost didn’t happen when Jobs couldn’t find the keys to the SUV and the family arrived late at the stadium. Once they arrived at the venue a guard didn't quite believe that the man riding shotgun—wearing “tattered jeans, Birkenstocks, and an old black T-Shirt”—was the commencement speaker.

When I first began researching Steve Jobs and his presentation skills, I didn't think anyone could rehearse more diligently than he did. That is, until I interviewed some of the most popular TED speakers. The speaker who has one of the most popular TED talk s of all time, Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor , told me she rehearsed 200 times before she delivered it in front of a TED audience. Dr. Jill’s presentation seemed natural, authentic , animated, and conversational. Many people don’t realize that it takes practice to sound conversational.

You might assume that a particular speaker is naturally gifted, confident, and polished on stage. What you don’t see is that it took them years of practice to get there. When I interviewed astronaut Chris Hadfield who became a social media sensation with his weightless versio n of David Bowie’s Space Oddity , I complimented him  on his TED talk and the strength of his delivery. “ I’ve b een speaking for about 25 years,” he reminded me.

Steve Jobs wasn’t a natural speaker. He worked at it really, really hard. Although he had a n early flair for the dramatic — as anyone who has watched him pull the first Macinto sh out of a black bag can attes t— there’s no question his comfort level on stage improved over time. It improved because he cared intensely about the message, the aesthetic, and the look of his brand.

Your brand—especially your personal brand—should mean just as much to you as Apple meant to Steve Jobs. And if Jobs was “meticulous” about every aspect of his presentations, shouldn't you be?

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7 Things Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Delivering a Powerful Presentation

You don't have to reinvent the computer to become great at giving speeches..

Who wouldn't want to give a presentation as great as the ones Steve Jobs delivered?

He didn't just announce a new Apple product; he found ways to get the audience as excited as possible while masterfully making that Apple product the next "must have" item. Don't believe me? Check out his 2007 iPhone launch speech . Replace Jobs with a popular music act and the audience would be just as amped.

Thankfully, you don't have to invent the next hot tech gadget or wear a black turtleneck to present as well as he did. There are some key takeaways from his speeches that anyone in business can sprinkle into their own communications.

Whether you're pitching to a VC, trying to sell to a customer, or just getting your team amped up on a Monday morning, incorporate these elements and see how far they'll take you:

Have a "Tweet-friendly headline"

Carmine Gallo, the author of 7 Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs , dubbed this term for Jobs' one sentence summaries of the product he was presenting. Some of them include "Mac Book Air: the world's thinnest notebook", and "iPod: One thousand songs in your pocket."

His intro sentences were so great because they clearly outlined what the product did while creating intrigue. Rather than rambling on, he used them to perfectly convey his message as compactly as possible.

Whether you're just writing a Tweet or presenting a new product, you can do something similar--try to cut the fat as much as possible (while still conveying your main point) to keep your audience glued.

Show your passion

You might be incredibly passionate about your business or new product, but nobody else knows that.

Take a page from Jobs, who not only acted excited, but sprinkled in words like "cool" or "amazing", and once said "it looks pretty doggone gorgeous" with a huge smile after revealing a new iPhone.

Most speakers make the mistake of solely focusing on the topic ahead, and leaving their personality out of it. Like Jobs, you eventually want to exude passion from every pore instead. For some baby steps, you can include a few reasons you're so excited about something when presenting it. You shouldn't be afraid to be confident and say why you think your great product is so "amazing" or "awesome."

Ditch the PowerPoint

Jobs famously said "people who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint."

Microsoft rivalry aside, he had a great point. I know I roll my eyes thinking about the hours-long slideshows I had to deal with on Wall Street while fighting off falling asleep. That's why instead of relying on PowerPoint, Jobs kept the audience's eyeballs on him to keep them awake.

It might take some work, but by remembering your talking points (instead of looking at a screen every five seconds), you can rely less on PowerPoint and more on yourself. If you absolutely have a burning desire to use PowerPoint, consider using those "Tweet-friendly headlines" instead of a wall of text.

Numbers are your new friend

Just like this article's headline, Jobs used number outlines to draw the audience in.

Rather than leaving the audience guessing, he said things like "Today we are introducing three revolutionary products. The first, a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second, is a revolutionary mobile phone. And the third is a breakthrough Internet communications device."

This tip is simple, but powerful. Start using it today.

Tailor to the audience

"Your audience is in the room for a particular reason. It's critical to understand why they're listening to you so you can tune your presentation in a manner that makes them more receptive listeners," said Jim Confalone, co-founder of ProPoint Graphics when he analyzed Jobs' speeches.

Whether you're networking or presenting, it's important to realize that it should never be a one-sided conversation. When you gear your conversation towards others' interests, you'll find an attentive audience like Jobs.

Practice, practice, practice

"Jobs unveils Apple's latest products as if he were a particularly hip and plugged-in friend showing off inventions in your living room. Truth is, the sense of informality comes only after grueling hours of practice," said a Business Week article .

When was the last time you spent hours rehearsing a speech or practicing a presentation? Jobs wasn't born being a great communicator, he worked hard at it. If you put in the elbow grease, you can be just as great as him.

Don't worry about mistakes

Nobody's perfect; even Jobs wasn't when he presented.

Carmine Gallo points out that Jobs wanted to show photos from a website during a presentation once, but the screen went black instead. He laughed it off and said "Well, I guess Flickr isn't serving up the photos today."

This applies to everything in life, but is especially useful during presentations: take mistakes in strides. While you should learn from them, you shouldn't let them hold you back.

What are your secrets for giving great presentations? I want to hear from you!

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"Be warned--if you pick up this book your presentations will never be the same again." --Martin Lindstrom, bestselling author of Buyology “Whether you consider yourself a Mac or a PC, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs reveals the operating system behind any great presentation, and provides you with the Quick Start Guide you need to design your own passionate interfaces between you and your audiences." --Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points and The Activist Audience "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 "This book is a treasure chest of practical knowledge. Now you can learn from the best there is (both Jobs and Gallo). No matter if you are a novice presenter or a professional speaker like me, you will read and re-read 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

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Carmine Gallo is the communications coach for the world’s most admired global brands. A former anchor and correspondent for CNN and CBS, Gallo has addressed executives at Intel, Cisco, Google, Medtronic, Pfizer, and many others. Gallo writes "My Communications Coach," a regular column for Forbes.com. He has written several bestselling and award-winning books, including The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs . Gallo has been featured in The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times , Success magazine, and on CNBC. Gallo’s latest book, The Power of Foursquare , reveals how innovative businesses around the world are leveraging new mobile marketing tools to attract and engage customers. Gallo, who lives in Pleasanton, California, with his wife and two daughters, may be found online at www.carminegallo.com.

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"Be forewarned: if you pick up this book, your presentations will never be the same again." ―Martin Lindstrom, bestselling author of Buyology

" 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

"Now you can learn from the best―both Jobs and Gallo. 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 iPhones." ―David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR and World Wide Rave

"No other leader captured an audience like Steve Jobs did and, like no other book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs captures the formula Steve uses to enthrall audiences." ―Rob Enderle, The Enderle Group

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