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Art Of Explanation, Enhanced Edition: Making Your Ideas, Products, And Services Easier To Understand (2012)

by Lee LeFever(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1283835061 (ISBN13: 9781283835060)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

John Wiley & Sons

review 1: The reference and instruction staff at my library is reading this as a team right now, or I might not have ever heard of this book. It isn't necessarily the sort of book that immediately grabs me (I do enough nonfiction reading for my master's coursework right now). In spite of that, I enjoyed it. It was a quick read, and I found it to be a helpful one since my job involves a great deal of explaining the way things work in our library to others. A lot of the points the author makes feel like things I've known all along, but they way he presents them helps me to crystallize and be more intentional in thinking about them.If I had a complaint, it was that the title had me thinking it might give a bit of research and wider background on the art of explanation, where in real... moreity it is mainly based in the author's experience in crafting explanations as a part of his own startup company that creates explanations for companies looking to explain their products. Still valuable, but a bit narrower in scope than I was expecting from the title.
review 2: I bought this book hoping to help me be better at business training presentations. I do a lot of talks on complicated matters of legal compliance. I want to switch from being able to lay out lots of detail for professionals to giving the big picture to executives in a way that is clear, engaging, and inspires action. I think the core of that is in this book. But, I think it will be very hard to apply the principles explained in this book to complex topics for smart people. With all due respect, explaining Twitter to someone who is not tech savvy is not really that hard. The better example in the book is explaining the health care policy at a company. That is closer to what I want but still lacks sufficient detail. The book is worthwhile, probably more so in some industries. I may come back to it again. But for now, it left me feeling like I got half an explanation. less

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