505: How to Make Data Inspire Action with Nancy Duarte
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Nancy Duarte explains how to combine data with story structures to create inspiring presentations.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The three-act structure of data.
2) The true hero of your presentation.
3) How to make magical moments for your audience.
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— ABOUT NANCY —
Nancy Duarte is a communication expert who has been featured in Fortune, Time Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, and on CNN. Her firm, Duarte, Inc., is the global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture. As a persuasion expert, she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story patterns into business communications. She’s written five best-selling books, four of which have won awards. She’s been ranked #1 on a list of the World’s Top 30 Communication Professionals.
• Nancy’s book: DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story.
• Nancy’s book: slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations.
• Nancy’s LinkedIn: Nancy Duarte.
• Nancy’s Twitter: @NancyDuarte.
• Nancy’s TED Talk: The secret structure of great talks.
• Nancy’s company Twitter: @duarte.
• Nancy’s website: www.duarte.com.
• Term: Slidedocs.
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• App: Pocket.
• Talk: Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone.
• Talk: PopTech 2009: Michael Pollan.
• Book: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini.
• Book: The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler.
• Book: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins.
• Book: Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and Profit by Brad Harris.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills |
| 0:08.0 | required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McChitis. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode |
| 0:21.0 | 505 with the legendary Nancy Duarte. |
| 0:24.1 | Nancy is sharing how to merge data with story structures to create really |
| 0:28.4 | inspiring presentations that generate action. |
| 0:31.5 | So you'll learn, one three act structure of data, two |
| 0:35.9 | the true hero of your presentation and three how to make four magical moments for |
| 0:40.6 | your audience. If you want to check out the show notes or the |
| 0:42.8 | transcript or the links to Islands we've referenced it's over at awesome at your |
| 0:45.6 | job.com slash F five. Here's Nancy's story. Nancy Tuarte is a communication expert who's been featured in Fortune Time magazine, Forbes Fast Company, |
| 0:54.8 | Wired, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, and CNN. |
| 0:58.5 | Her firm Duarte Inc. is the global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture. |
| 1:04.4 | As a persuasion expert, she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story patterns into business |
| 1:08.9 | communications. She's written five best-selling books, four of which are award-winning, and she's been ranked number one on a list of the |
| 1:16.2 | world's 30 top communication professionals. |
| 1:19.0 | Thanks to Nancy for spending some time with us, and thanks to our sponsors check them out. |
| 1:25.4 | Nancy, thanks for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at your Job |
| 1:28.1 | Podcast. |
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