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    The Art of Explanation: Making Your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand
    The Art of Explanation: Making Your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand
    The Art of Explanation: Making Your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Art of Explanation: Making Your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand

    Written by Lee LeFever

    Narrated by Tim Andres Pabon

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    Your guide to becoming an explanation specialist.
    You've done the hard work. Your product or service works beautifully - but something is missing. People just don't see the big idea - and it's keeping you from being successful. Your idea has an explanation problem.
    The Art of Explanation is for business people, educators and influencers who want to improve their explanation skills and start solving explanation problems.
    Author Lee LeFever is the founder of Common Craft, a company known around the world for making complex ideas easy to understand through short animated videos. He is your guide to helping audiences fall in love with your ideas, products or services through better explanations in any medium.
    You will learn to:
    Plan: Learn explanation basics, what causes them to fail and how to diagnose explanation problems.
    Package: Using simple elements, create an explanation strategy that builds confidence and motivates your audience.
    Present: Produce remarkable explanations with visuals and media.
    The Art of Explanation is your invitation to become an explanation specialist and see why explanation is now a fundamental skill for professionals.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781469059808

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    • 1/5
      If only chapter one had been 'Lose the Waffle' so the idea is neat in your listener's mind?

      I gave up on this and found a waffle-free book about explaining - which I found it in a teaching book.

      If you are interested in his mate Trevor's running problems - you'll like this book.