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The Secret to Changing the World

March 5, 2011 By Ron Dawson

Have you every seen a speech or presentation that made you want to get up and change the world? Maybe it was MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Maybe it was one of the many amazing presentations by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Ever wonder what makes those speeches so powerful? Well, wonder no more.

I stumbled upon this after reading Michael Hyatt’s blog today (my title is somewhat stolen from his. Like every good storyteller, I “borrow” from the best. 🙂 ) Anyway, below is a TEDx talk from the CEO of Duarte Design, Nancy Duarte. (TEDx are mini-versions of the now famous “world-changing” TED Conferences. Perhaps not coincidentally, MLK’s famous speech was 17 minutes, the approximate length of every TEDx speech.) Duarte is the company that creates the Keynote presentations for executives at Apple, Adobe and Microsoft to name a few.

This is an absolutely fascinating analysis of a successful presentation using a story structure analysis. I think it’s so cool that she starts with what is the most powerful device known to man. It’s the same thing I alluded to in this post. Watch this video. Then go change the world.

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Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: Apple, Duarte Design, Michael Hyatt, Nancy Duarte, Steve Jobs, TED

About Ron Dawson

Ron is a writer, filmmaker, speaker, author, coach, and host of Radio Film School. He does brand and content marketing for the media and tech industries at Blade Ronner Media.

Comments

  1. Riz Crescini says

    March 8, 2011 at 2:21 am

    What? Am I the only one to comment on this excellent post? Thanks for sharing this, Ron. It’s kicking me to get all my ideas out of my head and into the world.

    • Ron Dawson says

      March 8, 2011 at 8:30 am

      Thanks for the comment Riz. I don’t get a lot of comments on Saturday posts. 🙂

  2. joe says

    May 9, 2012 at 7:58 am

    no i havent every seen a speech but i have ever seen a speech

    grammar nazi out

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