Resonate
by Nancy Duarte
Duarte analyzes great speeches, King, Jobs, Reagan, Benjamin Zander, and finds a shared structure: moving between what is and what could be, with the audience as hero and the speaker as mentor, ending with the new bliss. It is visual, well-designed and the best book on presentation structure as opposed to slides.
Read it if…
you give talks and want them to move people, not just inform them.
Skip it if…
you want slide design; see her Slide:ology.
Three things you will actually use
- The audience is the hero; you are the mentor.
- Contrast what is with what could be, repeatedly.
- End with the new bliss: the picture of the changed world.
Do this first
Map your next talk as a sparkline: where does it move from what is to what could be?
Our verdict
Structural and inspiring.
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