Serious reading for business success
JOBURG – Read your way to a successful start or a banging speech.
Even seasoned public speakers can give a boring talk and it’s never easy to make a presentation for the very first time. Experienced or not, Richard Mulholland’s Boredom Slayer – A Speaker’s Guide to Presenting Like a Pro can teach you how to keep your audience glued to every word you say. This candid, practical guide offers key insights into gaining and keeping an audience’s attention, dispelling myths around public speaking and speaking like a true leader.
As the author said, ‘It’s time to fight back. It’s time to save the world … one bored audience at a time’ and he does just that in a witty, memorable way that makes this a must-have handbook for anyone involved in public speaking. TMP, R230.
• Matthew Buckland built a successful digital marketing and media business which he sold for millions to UK group M&C Saatchi. A few years later he started a new venture, and his book, So You Want to Build a Startup is a frank and refreshing account of the difficulties – and fun – involved. The book is filled with practical advice, insights, life lessons, tales of wacky characters, management failures and personal growth. Anyone with entrepreneurial ambitions will find Buckland’s refreshingly honest, sensible and very readable approach an essential guide to starting their own business. Tafelberg, R295.
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