Presentation Zen

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1. svendbtJan 2019
   Here's a list of books I have compiled as a fairly fresh PM (just getting started with the reading). The intention with this list is to built up a good mental tool box to succeed in product management (coming from SW+chip design).

   PM:

     - Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love
   
     - The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
   
     - Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
   
     - What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Service
   
     - Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age
   

   Marketing:

     - Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
   
     - Brand Identity Breakthrough: How to Craft Your Company's Unique Story to Make Your Products Irresistible
   

   UX

     - Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
   
     - The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
   

   Organization / Business

     - Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World
   
     - Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
   
     - Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It
   
     - The Thank You Economy
   

   Personal

     - Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
   
     - TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
   
     - Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
     - How To Win Friends and Influence People
   
     - Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
   
     - Thinking in Systems: A Primer
   
     - Thinking, Fast and Slow
   

   Also, blogs:

     - Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
     - Aha! Blog
     - Inside Intercom
     - Mind the Product
     - PMHQ blog
     - Silicon Valley Product Group
     - The Accidental Product Manager
     - The Product Bistro
     - The Product Guy
     - The Secret Product Manager Handbook
   

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2. scottoreillyDec 2013
   By far the best book I've read on this stuff is Presentation Zen:

   http://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Delivery-Editi...

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3. beatAug 2013
   Buy the book Presentation Zen and read it. Build your slideshow based on advice in that book. Practice your talk, with a timer, both alone and with a friendly audience (my dogs will sometimes listen for upwards of five minutes if they think they'll get a treat).
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4. iyulaevMay 2013
   PowerPoint is a presentation tool, and like any tool it can be misused to the point of frustration. At best, PowerPoint offers a good way to provide a visual aid for a presentation. People who present crappy PowerPoint decks would have no trouble delivering a similarly crappy speech, or writing an indecipherable memo.

   One great book on delivering awesome presentations - Presentation Zen (http://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Delivery-Editi...)

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5. saraid216Dec 2012
   TeMPoraL's comment comes close to my response, but it's not quite what I'd say:

   A slide deck is a visual aid. Its only purpose is to be a visual aid. If you want your audience to take a physical memento away with them, don't be lazy: make a separate, physical memento designed to be taken away with them. Your slide deck should be useless after the fact, just like a bullet shell casing is useless after you've fired the bullet.

   When you make something, make it with a singular purpose in mind and make it fulfill that purpose well. IIRC, Presentation Zen covered this fairly well; in fact, I'm pretty sure Garr Reynolds is where I got this notion to begin with.

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6. edandersenDec 2012
   Garr Reynolds has an excellent blog about giving great, bullet point free Presentations: http://www.presentationzen.com/

   His book, Presentation Zen, comes highly recommended (not a referral link): http://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Delivery-Editi...

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