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What do you want your audience to know or do?
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic • Storytelling With Data
You are never forced to express your thoughts completely.” Bezos announced that employees could no longer use such corporate crutches and would have to write their presentations in prose, in what he called narratives. The S Team debated with him over the wisdom of scrapping PowerPoint but Bezos insisted. He wanted people thinking deeply and taking
... See moreBrad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Change typically doesn’t happen without a struggle. It’s hard to convince people to move away from a view that is comfortable or widely held as true, or change a behavioral pattern that has become their norm.
Nancy Duarte • HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations (HBR Guide Series)
“Right now, whoever argues the best in our quarterly meetings can change the strategy.”
Joshua Seiden • Outcomes Over Output
SPROUT SPEECHES, NOT STUMP SPEECHES
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
make speech more persuasive and engaging.
Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
Make Each Word Count In speaking from the heart, make each word count, clearly communicating the one overarching point that you care most about and making one supporting point at a time.