The DJP Update

DJP Update 2-8-2020 My new book! A LEADER’S GUIDE TO GIVING A MEMORABLE SPEECH – Hope you can help get this book on NYTimes bestseller list!

I write to ask for your help in making my new book, A Leader’s Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech, a bestseller.  I will be 81 years old in July and I would like to hit the NYTimes bestseller list before I depart this Earth.  I think it is possible with help from friends!  A big ask, but friends frequently enjoy a quest.  I appreciate greatly any help you can lend.

For many years I have taught an elective seminar On Leadership for 3^rd and 4^th year students at Tulane Medical School and, since 2014, another elective How to Give a Memorable Speech.  The response by the Tulane students has been wonderful.

Last Spring, the Founder and Publisher of Skyhorse Publishing in New York City, Tony Lyons, contacted me about writing a book on the subject of memorable speeches after he heard and read about my success in teaching the elements of memorable speeches in the Tulane course and on the lecture circuit.  You may recall that Skyhorse published my previous books, On Leadership (2008 book and 2^nd expanded edition in 2011) and The Little Red Book of Leadership Lessons (2012).

My latest venture with Skyhorse Publishing will be released this April.  I put all of my research and experience with over 1000 speeches and interviews worldwide into this book that I believe will be of value to not only individuals in leadership positions, including those running for office at AMA or in state or national political races, but also to parents hoping to give that extra edge to their children as they undertake speech and debate class as well as college and job interviews. 

The great storyteller, Tess Gerritsen, wrote a wonderful FOREWORD to the book.  Tess is a retired physician in Maine who has sold more than 30 million copies of her novels worldwide.  She knows how to tell a story!  My book emphasizes the importance of stories in memorable speeches.

Fear of public speaking is common and my book gives tips on how to overcome fear and give speeches worthy of a standing ovation.  To learn more about the book, including the table of contents, go to https://donaldpalmisano.com

Be sure to check out the videos about the book at the same website.  I have listed the advance reader reviews of the book in the Addendum below my signature.

Some of you bought 50-100 plus copies of my earlier books as gifts or for members of organizations with which you are associated, as I did with my first book for all of the students of my high school alma mater De La Salle in New Orleans.  My new book, A Leader’s Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech, is a timeless resource for speech preparation and delivery and would be an equally wonderful gift for students, executives, and leaders in your network.

Hope you can place pre-orders now, perhaps multiple pre-orders for your organizations or as gifts.  I am informed that it takes a cumulative total of 7,500 to 10,000 books sold at Amazon and other bookstores in the 1^st week of publication to make the NYTimes bestseller list.  All pre-orders count for the 1^st week total.  The book will be available for delivery April 7, 2020. 

Here are the links to PRE-ORDER NOW!

AMAZON
BARNES & NOBLE
BOOKS-A-MILLION
POWELL’S
INDIBOUND
SKYHORSE PUBLISHING

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 Thanks for your time and consideration of purchase.  I am grateful for your interest and friendship over the years.

 Sincerely,

Donald

 Donald J. Palmisano, MD, JD, FACS
Donald J Palmisano Consulting
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Addendum:  

 Praise for A Leader’s Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech from advanced readers of book.

“Storytelling at its best! Dr. Donald Palmisano takes you from Aristotle and Cicero to modern day orators, with insights on avoiding panic and other pitfalls, the use of rhetorical devices, and how to wow audiences from this masterful speaker who has done over one thousand speeches and interviews.”

—John N. Kennedy, United States Senator for Louisiana

“Giving a high-impact speech requires a thorough understanding of the art and science of passionate communication, and in A Leader’s Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech, Dr. Don Palmisano has drawn from over two thousand years of wisdom and structure to put all the keys in your hands. As important and immediately useful to a speaker as a six-gun was to a lawman in the old west. Highly readable, immediately useful, and deeply enjoyable!”

—John J. Nance, Aviation Analyst for ABC World News, author, and speaker

“Dr. Palmisano’s book is of supreme importance to all. An indispensable template to educate all who wish to write or give speeches. A buoy for support of all who have shuddered in anxiety before giving an occasional address. A beacon of hope for audiences that they will cease being subjected to boring, ill-prepared, and irrelevant speeches.”

—Ronald J. French, MD, reigned as Rex, King of New Orleans Mardi Gras in 2007

“A surgeon, an attorney, an extraordinary leader, an author, and a man fully engaged in the richness of life, Dr. Palmisano, the bestselling author of On Leadership, has written another remarkable book. A Leader’s Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech delivers on the promise of the title with an abundance of practical advice that you will find useful whether you are an experienced public speaker or deathly afraid of addressing an audience. But the book offers much more. You will learn how to envision your message, shape it, and deliver it beautifully, as Dr. Palmisano interweaves his own vast experience with that of great writers and orators throughout history. It is impossible to read this book without wanting to highlight it, and you will find yourself making notes for your next speech. You will enjoy every page for the richness of the writing, the curated tour of literature and oratory, and the no-nonsense wisdom presented. You will learn how to achieve memorable communication in contexts ranging from an elevator pitch to a TED talk. You will see words that have moved the wheel of history and explore literary devices that have been effective for thousands of years. You not only need this book, you will enjoy it immensely.”

—Richard E. Anderson, MD, FACP, Chairman and CEO of The Doctors Company

“‘If there is an awful malady in the world, it is stage fright, ’Mark Twain recalled. ‘My knees were shaking . . . I didn’t know whether I could stand.’ I felt those sensations at age seven giving a camp lecture. Dr. Palmisano’s book would have saved me.

Built on the remarkable experiences of a superb speaker whose own memorable addresses I’ve heard, Dr. Palmisano assembles principles from history and literature to create a spinal column of rhetorical devices, demeanor, and inside knowledge that canstructure and polish in-person or media success for first-timers orthe experienced. Twain would have loved it like me.”

—Mark B. Constantian, MD, FACS, Traveling Professor, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

“In this easy-to-read, practical, and well-organized guide to public speaking, Donald Palmisano, MD, notes the importance of ‘being yourself.’ He personifies this advice consistently and in this book, providing invaluable tools for more effective communication and success.”

—Donna Baver Rovito, editor, Physician Family Magazine

“Dr. Palmisano’s leadership and public speaking seminar is highly rated by our medical students due to his uncanny ability to convey important lessons through storytelling. This book will undoubtedly provide much-needed practical strategies for becoming an effective, engaging, and memorable speaker.

—Jennifer W. Gibson, PhD, director, Office of Medical Education at Tulane University School of Medicine

“When I was offered the chance to have a look at A Leader’s Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech by Dr. Donald Palmisano, I jumped at the chance. Tulane medical students have had the opportunity to take his elective course, ‘Leadership: How to Give a Memorable Speech.’ Well, I missed my chance by only forty-five years or so I thought. Now, we all have that second chance for leadership guru Dr. Palmisano has synthesized this course into this, his latest book. Drawing from seemingly boundless examples from Demosthenes to Mick Jagger, from Shakespeare to Lou Gehrig, this book comes fully loaded with practical tips, examples, and directions enough to make Mark Twain take notes. This book is also chock full of the lagniappe of his own life experience. From the young boy frozen with stage fright to ‘Aloha, Mahalo’ in his farewell address to the Louisiana Medical Society, Dr. Palmisano pulls the reader alongside him as he revisits the highway of his life while sharing the insights gained at every rest stop on the path to leadership. Whether tasked with addressing your local PTA or your state legislature, you need to look no further than A Leader’s Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech for inspiration. This is truly the only how-to guide you will ever need. I wish I had seen this book before giving my own inaugural address.”

—Art Fougner, MD, president of the Medical SocietyState of New York 2019–2020

“Speaking powerfully, with confidence, can transform your career. Palmisano, himself a famed speaker, provides tips and techniques that are invaluable.”

—Philip K. Howard, bestselling author of The Death ofCommon Sense and leader in legal reform