The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

I consider to be one of my responsibilities as a mentor to be providing  entrepreneurs pointers to helpful resources .

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo is a book I highly recommend.

I saw Steve launch the Mac in 1984 at the Boston Computer Society and launch the NeXT Machine in San Francisco, along with watching virtually all of his product intros that Apple has made available on video.

Carmine Gallo has gone through all of Steve’s presentations and extracted the principles that help make his presentations so effective.

Just so my biases are clear: I consider Steve to be the best presenter, sales person, marketer, and product visionary ever. I only met him once and briefly, when he came to MIT because we were selling the NeXT machine in the MIT computer store, which I was responsible for building. But I can understand how people who worked with him talked about “his reality distortion field”. He had more charisma than the next ten charismatic people I’ve ever known.

Reading this book will not enable you to present as if you were Steve Jobs, but it will certainly help you create presentations that are clear, simple, concise, engaging and memorable.

Author: Mentorphile

Mentor, coach, and advisor to entrepreneurs, small businesses, and non-profit organizations. General manager with significant experience in both for-profit and non-profit organizations. Focus on media and information. On founding team of four venture-backed companies. Currently Chairman of Popsleuth, Inc., maker of the Endorfyn app for keeping fans updated on new stuff from their favorite artists. View all posts by Mentorphile