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Good In A Room: How To Sell Yourself (and Your Ideas) And Win Over Any Audience (2008)

by Stephanie Palmer(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0385520433 (ISBN13: 9780385520430)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Crown Business

review 1: If you are someone that works with ... people ... even in IT then you should read this book. Every one of us is some part salesman in our home/work life. If you've ever had to pitch an idea to your: board, boss, employees, spouse, kids, then this book will be a valuable tool for you. Stephanie Palmer is a former MGM exec who listened to movie pitches all day and she separates the good techniques from the bad techniques and in cases gives step by step checklists to validate your pitch techniques. I found this book to be fantastic and devoid of all the typical "business book verbal diarrhea" that you tend to expect.
review 2: The interesting premise, well, temporarily interesting I'm afraid, being authored by a highly successful Hollywood executive telling us... more the secrets of connecting well in any situation....what to do, what not to do, stages and scenarios, all with lovely little examples from "real life" inside the Hollywood business culture. It's all good when you're reading the first intriguing bits, but it does go on a bit in a formulaic style: Subject, Hollywood story example, summary, example as to how to apply this 'tip' in our particular situation. It gets old after a few chapters...plus, there's nothing really new here. Come on, maybe if you're an 18-24 year old freshman in the office...but really? You probably got the major points well before you began to walk through those glass doors every morning. The school of hard knocks has a way of doing that to you.So, my summary? Skip it. There are plenty of other great books that capture and keep your attention with variety, humor, humility, suffering, and triumph that can teach these principles in a more memorable manner. less

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