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The Pyramid Principle
The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto, a former McKinsey consultant, offers a “how-to” methodology for organizing your ideas so your message comes across clearly. The book is written for business writers but the principles apply equally well to speaking.
Made to Stick
If the Pyramid Principle is about how to organize your ideas clearly, Made to Stick is about how to express them memorably. Chip and Dan Heath offer six excellent principles for making your ideas resonate and “stick” in the minds of your audience. They will help you transform the way people think and act.
Slide:ology
Nancy Duarte, the founder of one of the largest design firms in Silicon Valley, helps non-designers think like designers in her terrific book Slide:ology. It offers excellent advice on how to design great presentation decks so they visually reinforce your message and make your message as clear and easy as possible for your audience to understand.
Show Me the Numbers
Stephen Few, an information design specialist, has written what I consider to be the best practical and comprehensive book out there for designing tables and graphs specifically for the needs of business. The numbers that measure your business are almost always communicated in tables and graphs and the information they communicate often becomes the foundation for many critical business decisions. It is imperative then that tables and graphs present data clearly and convey the right message. This book will teach you everything you need to know to make that happen.