Michael PortCritiques

Dirty tricks for making great presentations!

I wanted to like this book but ended up deeply disappointed. It is really 2 stars, but includes a couple of decent points and is an important topic so I was generous.

Basically two parts — a completely forgettable “life advice from an actor and public speaker” (which was simultaneously generic and bleh), and then a longer section on actual public speaking advice, again based on acting techniques. This was somewhat useful. Most was generic advice but with good motivation (rehearse a lot, make eye contact), but some information about improv exercises, stage blocking, and other acting specific techniques which was actually new and worthwhile.

Unfortunately, most of the book was peppered with sales pitches for the author’s speaking consultancy.

Overall, I’d probably skip this book, although it could be worth it for someone doing a lot of speaking events for the specific acting derived insights.

Eh. This was totally for actors and public speakers. I just needed help with an interview, so I wasn't so into it.

Nice book about how to start a service business, selling digital products and establish on the industry step by step.

Set up within three modules; Setting your foundation, building your trust and credibility, and then the core 7 strategies

Your given specific instrustions and tasks to help identify what you have to offer and the how to methods to market that skill. If your marketing reading material is small then this book will offer lots of great tools for you to get started. For those who read numerous books to gather new tools and ideas then this may provide a few nuggets, but most likley it will be the same material we've seen elsewhere only in a new packaged format.

Overall it's reminded me of some areas I can focus on further, but not much after that.

Set up within three modules; Setting your foundation, building your trust and credibility, and then the core 7 strategies

Your given specific instrustions and tasks to help identify what you have to offer and the how to methods to market that skill. If your marketing reading material is small then this book will offer lots of great tools for you to get started. For those who read numerous books to gather new tools and ideas then this may provide a few nuggets, but most likley it will be the same material we've seen elsewhere only in a new packaged format.

Overall it's reminded me of some areas I can focus on further, but not much after that.

Product Description
It has become far too common that people never reach their full potential, their biggest limiting factor being the belief that they can only achieve small success. This is the result of small thinking. The Think Big Manifesto is a practical roadmap of how we can stop squandering our potential and learn how to break out of our mental boxes and think on a much bigger scale. Don’t just aspire to move up the corporate ladder, aim to be CEO. The core of the book will teach you the “Ten Principles” necessary for thinking big. Once you learn these principles you can use them to transform your professional and personal, day-to-day, life. Practical issues that will be covered:

• Work: Career Path Obstacles created/exacerbated by small thinking; Innovation curbed by small thinking; Teamwork destroyed; Strategy clouded; Tactics muddled; etc.

• Relationships: How small thinking leads to competition and division, to lack of generosity, empathy, vulnerability, the things that form strong bonds and create true cooperation and collaboration.

• Social World: How small thinking locks us into a divorce between our private and public worlds, the divorce of doing well in business and doing well for the common good.

• Personal Growth: How small thinking keeps us from embracing and developing our true passions, and the alienation and lack of fulfillment that results.

Stop thinking small. It's time to think big, achieve big, and realize your full potential.