false 0 15 15 true 5716322 read 0 true 2279641 currently-reading 0 true 2279640 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20658937 to: Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) by Garr Reynolds
This is a beautifully presented, elegant book on designing better Power Point slides. If everyone followed its advice, the business world especially would be a better, happier, more elegant place! My only complaint with it is that when he goes beyond design issues and talks about content and delivery of presentations, his advice is too simple to be helpful, or to give a presenter a needed edge over the competition. It's not enough to say, for example, that you should structure your speech by giving it a beginning, middle, and end. But on PowerPoint, this is great advice. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20658863 to: The Pyramid Principle: Present Your Thinking So Clearly That the Ideas Jump Off the Page and into the Reader's Mind (Hardcover) by Barbara Minto
The classic work on how to write clear, logical prose. If you haven’t read this book, don’t try to write — or criticize anyone else’s writing. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20658769 to: Revising Prose (5th Edition) by Richard A. Lanham
This too-often ignored book gives some surprisingly simple and straightforward ways to improve prose after it has been drafted. Anyone, even the ordinary non-writer, can benefit from reading this book and applying its insights to their own writing. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20658713 to: Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (9th Edition) by Joseph M. Williams
If you want to learn how to write well, with elegance and power, this is the only book after Strunk and White that will tell you how. Williams has figured out some aspects of writing no one else has. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20658668 to: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills
This book brilliantly analyzes one of the greatest speeches ever given. If you’re interested in improving your own speaking, start here. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20658639 Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most (Paperback) by Douglas Stone
This book takes apart those tough—and usually disastrous—conversations you have with your spouse, your teenager, or your boss and shows how to make them successful every time. An amazing analysis based on a simple insight—that there are three kinds of difficult conversations, and we get into trouble when we think we’re having one kind and the other party is having another. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20658595 to: Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Paperback) by Roger Fisher
There are many good books on negotiation; this is the first and still the best. Really—Fisher & Co. know what they’re talking about. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20658530 to: Influence: Science and Practice (4th Edition) by Robert B. Cialdini
Cialdini lays out the five ways that people are influenced to think, buy, and behave. This is the classic—everyone since has merely embroidered Cialdini’s basic insights. You need to know this stuff if you’re a marketer, selling an idea, or just trying to be persuasive. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20658444 to: Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less (Paperback) by Guy Claxton
Claxton describes different ways of learning and gives the reader a real insight into how to learn more, faster and better. Cramming for the Bar Exam, a college final, or a new subject on the job? You’ll do it differently after you read this. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20658405 to: Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping (Paperback) by Paco Underhill
Underhill reflects on his years of research into the shopping mall and how we are influenced by store layouts and design. There’s more to it than you think. You’ll never look at a Nordstrom’s—or a Starbucks—the same way again. ]]>