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Thinking on Your Feet

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This book contains all tip and tactics you need to keep conversations and presentations from getting out of hand. If someone is heckling you during an important presentation or asks you a question that you do not know the answer to, this book gives you advice on responding tactfully so you do not look irresponsible, weak, etc.

In essence, this book helps convey the art of BSing. Everyone has known someone in their life who can talk their way out of any situation. This book can help you become someone like that. Very highly recommended!

I found this book to be very limited in regard to content. I was looking for more advanced techniques, or at least a more detailed study of actual methods for accomplishing what the title advertises. The author could have presented the main points of this book on a few pages and saved us all the time required to read the filler material. Just about any book you pick up about public speaking or personal communication contains the advice found here. "Repeat the question - It gives you a few more seconds to think about your answer" is about as advanced as the info in this book gets.

This powerful little volume, now in its 20th year, is a classic of its genre. From page one Woodall coaches the reader in developing skillful, confident responses to sticky questions. She says, "Thinking on your Feet means saying exactly what you want to say at exactly the right moment . . . ." Her method and examples provide common-sense means for gaining the high ground in any conversational situation. It's guidance one can use without the distraction of theoretical or statistical overkill. Thinking on Your Feet follows its own advice, recognizing that brevity is not only the soul of wit, but of wisdom. I agree with Kare Anderson (www.sayitbettercenter.com) that "This is the best single book for learning to maintain composure when responding to a hot situation or volatile person." Highly recommended.

This book contains simple and practical tips on how to carry on a conversation, how answer questions in various situations, and how to give a positive self-introduction. The 2nd edition has been sitting on my bookshelf for a decade. Every once in a while I'd want to get rid of it. I'd pick it up, read a couple of chapters, decide that I am still learning from it -- and then back it goes on the shelf.

Loved the book! Excellent frank examples. I especially enjoyed the interaction examples between teens and their parents. Also exchanges between parents and teachers. As a former teacher I felt this author was "RIGHT ON!"

This book is fine. However, the process in getting the book was horrible. I was done with my thesis defense by the time I got the book then you want me pay again. It took forever to get the book.....bad business. This was totally unacceptable.