Make it Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform

Awesome book. I have hugely benifited

If you have any kind of professional job, by far the most important skill you will ever develop is effective, convincing and memorable communication.I took Professor Winston's class at MIT in 2009, which consisted of 50% time spent on the history artificial intelligence (his own career), and 50% on the sort of practical guidance for effective communication that he has now written in this book. At the time I took careful notes which I still refer to, but I knew as well there were so many important things he shared which I did not have the opportunity to write down, and always regretted this.Now that this book has been published, we are all so lucky that Professor Winston took the time himself to share in writing the accumulated wisdom of his long and accomplished career before he died.This book is an invaluable resource that is crammed full of specific, practical and actionable advice for many different circumstances. For many people it may well be the most impactful self-help book you could possibly buy.

This book is full of really good advice on nearly any sort of professional communication one would have to do. Since receiving it, I've used it as a reference for every presentation and writing assignment at work. I've also passed along various sections to colleagues who were looking for advice on improving their communication skills too. Pretty much anybody could benefit from having this book around!

There is an youtube video of the author talking about how to present. This text amplifies it - Present yourself well and really well.

This is for presenting in academia, and certainly not in a business or media climate. Lots of the information is dated and old school. Unless you're presenting something from your doctoral thesis, don't bother with this one. R.O.I. is low on the read. Kinda' like your grandfather giving advice about "this new thing they call The Facebook."