you don’t have to be fearless.Just braver.
Presentations are the air we breathe in business. For decades that air has been polluted with unexamined habits. This is a book for any leader ready to take responsibility for how their ideas move.
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a book about presentations,Presented by the author.
A sample from Chapter 3: High-Stakes Presentations Are Governed by Adrenaline.
four promises.One fire.
Know your audience
Design for the human across the table, not the role they hold.
Craft your story
The structures that have moved people for centuries, and why they work in a boardroom.
Know yourself
Presence persuades. Rehearse like a responsibility, not a ritual.
Leverage your environment
Time, location and atmosphere are strategy, not logistics.
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The Campfire Method isn’t really a book about presentations. It’s a book about how ideas move from one human being to another.
★★★★★Amazon review It’s about buy-in, not buying and that’s a key difference between this and other “presentation” books.
★★★★★Amazon review This is one of the most insightful books on communication I’ve read in years, and I expect it will become a classic.
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Eric Harris
Eric Harris is the founder of GatherRound and the inventor of The Campfire Method, a framework for presenters who need to move people toward complex ideas in high-stakes moments.
A former brand and ad agency leader, Eric launched GatherRound in 2015 after watching strong ideas repeatedly fail in the rooms where they should have won. Not because the ideas were weak, but because selling them is a skill most leaders are never taught. To close that gap, Eric created The Campfire Method. It has since been adopted by leadership teams at The Beck Group, Activision Blizzard, Yum! Brands and others. Eric also teaches Executive Presence and Strategic Storytelling at TCU Neeley Executive Education.
He believes your ideas have the potential to change the world. All they need is for you to light the fire.
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