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The Blind Men and the Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe
The Blind Men and the Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe










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The Blind Men and the Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe

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The Blind Men and the Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe

This blog is an excerpt from my book Presentations in Action published by Pearson. Finally, anticipate all objections to the original story and prepare valid responses to those objections.After that, develop a narrative that merges the story and slides and become familiar enough with that narrative to present with confidence.Then design slides that serve as headlines or illustrations of the key elements of the story.Start with a clear and lucid narrative that relates and targets the story to a particular audience.The effective way to integrate all the individual elements of a presentation is for the presenter (and team) to: More importantly, the presenter must integrate every one of these elements with each of the other elements, or any one of them can backfire and ruin the entire presentation. The presenter must manage every one of these elements. However, a well-told story can be ruined by a slide show that resembles a doctoral dissertation on quantum physics, or by a presenter stricken by the fear of public speaking, or by a zinger question from the audience. One person describes it as the story, another as the slides, another as the delivery, and yet another as the handling of tough questions. Conventionally, people in business view a presentation as the individual parts of an elephant.

The Blind Men and the Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe

The point of both the poem and the fable is to demonstrate the importance of seeing objects-as well as objectives-from an overarching view instead of just as component parts to see the forest, not just the trees.Ĭontextual perception also applies to presentations. One man said it was a wall, another a spear, another a snake, another a tree, another a fan, and the last man a rope. In 1872, John Godfrey Saxe, an American poet, published a poem based on an ancient Indian fable about six blind men who were asked to describe an elephant by touch.












The Blind Men and the Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe