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Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story and Designing Your Slides, 3rd Edition
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Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story and Designing Your Slides, 3rd Edition

by Jerry Weissman
October 2021
Beginner
336 pages
7h 40m
English
FT Press
Content preview from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story and Designing Your Slides, 3rd Edition

Chapter One

Persuasion

Case Studies: David Ogilvy, Ogilvy & Mather • David Mamet • L. Gordon Crovitz, The Wall Street Journal • Zig Ziglar • Mortimer Adler • Aristotle • Jean Shepherd • William Shakespeare • Dan Warmenhoven, Network Appliance • Stephen Covey

When Aeschines spoke, they said, “How well he speaks.”But when Demosthenes spoke, they said, “Let us march.”1

Confessions of an Advertising Man

David Ogilvy

▪ Selling ▪

David Ogilvy, known among his peers as “The Father of Advertising” for the extraordinary success of his powerhouse Ogilvy & Mather advertising agency, knew a thing or two about selling and always urged his clients to “march.”

Playwright David Mamet understands selling, too. His Pulitzer Prize–winning play Glengarry Glen ...

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ISBN: 9780136933281