Talk Like TED: The 9 Public Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

By Carmine Gallo

With a new introduction from the author, discover the secrets to a perfect TED Talk and learn how to deliver an exceptional presentation with communications coach Carmine Gallo’s Talk Like TED.

‘A smart, practical book that will teach you how to give a kick-butt presentation’ – Daniel H. Pink, No. 1 bestselling author of Drive

TED Talks have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking around the world. And yet the techniques that top TED speakers use are the same ones that will make any presentation more dynamic, fire up any team, and give anyone the confidence to overcome their fear of public speaking.

Bestselling author of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, Carmine Gallo has broken down the top TED Talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters to uncover the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations, including

• Unleashing the master within
• Delivering jaw dropping moments
• Sticking to the eighteen-minute rule

And more. Through these nine secrets, Gallo provides a step-by-step method that makes it possible for anyone to create, design, and deliver a TED-style presentation that is engaging, persuasive, and memorable.

Talk Like TED will show you how to create presentations around the ideas that matter most to you – presentations that will energize your audience to spread those ideas, launch new initiatives, and reach their highest goals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Release date: Mar 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781447261261

Carmine Gallo

Carmine Gallo is the bestselling author of Talk Like TED and The Storyteller’s Secret. He is a communications coach for widely admired brands such as Pfizer, LinkedIn, Intel and Coca-Cola, and a keynote speaker known for teaching the world’s most respected business leaders how to deliver dynamic presentations and share inspiring stories. He is a columnist for Forbes and Entrepreneur. He is the head of Gallo Communications in California, where he resides with his wife.

Reviews for Talk Like TED

[drfuriosa · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book has inspired me to rethink the structure of my potential job talks for academic job interviews and my informational lectures to my students. It's an engaging, practical book.

[geirsan · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This book has its good points and confirms what we already know about public speaking. As a remInder to focus it is good. But it is written in a way that really puts me off the author as a selfy, pompous guy who needs to get into name dropping and bragging to prove his qualifications. After reading the book, I find myself worrying that now every public talk will sound like a TED talk, whereby we devalue the novelty add value of TED talks. The more TED talks we have, the less value single talks have.

[daniel5estes · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

After the umpteenth mention of the word "passion" in the first chapter alone, I was ready to call it quits. An excess of clichéd biz-speak and one too many iWorshipful mentions of Steve Jobs are examples of how Talk Like TED behaves more like an infomercial for TED than an actual how-to guide for better presentations.

[paven-14534 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The tips in this book are solid. I used some of them as a teacher and trainer. I will use this book as a study book when preparing for future talks until I know the tips by heart.

The next things I will take on is
* telling stories
* limit the talks to 18 minutes
* use images instead of text