Scott Berkun
Confessions of a Public Speaker
O'Reilly, 2011
What's inside?
Harness your self-consciousness and become a skillful, relaxed public speaker
Recommendation
Futurist and best-selling author Scott Berkun knows all about public presentations. He speaks often at high-tech conferences and other pressurized gatherings. His easy-going, colloquial approach and unpretentious, folksy advice make this an quick, entertaining and useful read. Although about half of what he says is not new, the book is memorable because of his candor about the self-consciousness and awkwardness that most people experience when speaking in public. Berkun convinces you that anyone can excel at public speaking. He offers many techniques to help with the most difficult aspect: being yourself. getAbstract recommends this amusing guide to anyone who has to get up and talk to a roomful of strangers.
Summary
About the Author
Scott Berkun is the best-selling author of Making Things Happen and The Myths of Innovation. He is a former teacher of creative thinking at the University of Washington, and his writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times and Wired.
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