Good in a Room: How to Sell Yourself (and Your Ideas) and Win Over Any Audience Book

*Good in a Room* is one of those books that you read once and refer to many times. Read it the first time to pick up some valuable ideas. Keep it on your shelf for reference as you prepare for and attend those big meetings that can change your life or build your career.

In his book *The Success Principles*, Jack Canfield advises you to develop an elevator speech to pitch your products and serviced in a matter of seconds. In *Good In A Room*, Stephanie Palmer says the elevator pitch leads you to pitch the wrong things to the wrong people in the wrong placed. By itself, this would be a contrarian opinion worth some thought, but she goes on to suggest what you should do instead and how to go about it. If you carefully compare what she and Canfield say, their advice is similar and complementary. This kind of advice is what makes it worth the first read.

What makes the book worth keeping as a reference are checklists, how tos, and examples. I am a great believer in the value of checklists and the book offers some with enough detail that it makes more sense to keep the book than copy out the lists. The how to sections and examples help you understand the thinking behind the ideas and the application if them.

Although the book has a good index, I'd like to see the book put the lists, checklists, and reference items into figures and have a table to them at the start of the book. This would greatly improve the already significant reference value of the book.

*Good In A Room* offers a systematic approach to preparing for and handling those big meetings that can make your career and change your life. While this kind of meeting is rare for most people, applying these ideas will improve your ability to compete.