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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. 

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (October 12, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1118374584
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118374580
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.87 x 0.62 x 7.79 inches
Reviewer: Anna H
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Absolute must read!
Review: In the busy world of social media, we lost good way of explaining what we do and communicating freely. Understanding of ideas and problems is lost. Here in this book you can find an amazing way how to explain what you do and how things work so everyone will understand.I work as a mind coach and over last two years I hire marketing and business coaches to help me market what I do. It was waist of money and time. I developed my own "elevator pitch" that works for me. Now after learning all the points about explanation I will make it my goal to do it better.I highly recommend this book to everyone. We can use good explanation that is a core of good communication in every area of our lives.

Reviewer: Tony Chu
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Practical and Sensible
Review: I found this to be a very useful primer on how to explain something to an audience and get them to a) understand and b) buy in. I found the suggestions to be practical, and realistic, and reasonable (i.e., they made sense).The only minor drawback I found was that some of the principles were repeated a bit too often - but that is also something you have to do if you really want people to get what you are saying.I have this on my Kindle and I found I was saving all sorts of little passages for future reference or as reminders. Being able to explain something effectively, in a way that really connects with people, is a dying art - and a very valuable one. I recommend this book.

Reviewer: Victor M. Chavez
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: great book
Review: great book

Reviewer: James
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Before action comes commitment. And you can't commit unless you understand...
Review: I've been fascinated with the lack of communication skills in our business world, and why is it so bad. To make anything happen someone must do something, and that can be from explicit instruction, or because they understand what is needed and why. Commitment and initiative comes from understanding. This book is a break through in waking us up to the fact that we aren't getting through to the people that matter. More importantly its how to fix this.Imagine being able to persuade customers about the benefits of your product or service, so that they actually understand it. Not that they just get the brand. Hello... Clarity is the basis for all communication. And Lee LeFever is a master at making difficult ideas and concepts crisp and clear. More importantly making the subtleties of ordinary of ordinary day to day ideas "loud and clear" to the average Joe working in your business, or considering buying from your business.A must buy for anyone serious about growing their business....

Reviewer: Adam J. Borovkoff
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Slightly disappointed
Review: This was kind of disappointing for a book. I love the authors YouTube channel and plain English videos. But confused as to why you would write a book about the art of explanation and then present it so cheaply. The quality of the paper is bad, like old recycled newspapers, the cover is cheap paper too. I guess I was expecting something a little more classy. The book reads a bit slow too. Not terribly impressed. Sad because of the subject. I think the author explains things well in video, but less than even adequate in print. Oh well, I will still reference it occasionally I hope.

Reviewer: Henry
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Can't Get Any Better
Review: When i first got this book, i was skeptical. Seriously a book on explanation?But something urge me to go ahead and give it a read. After all, what can i lose right?Good explanations is like "turning on a lightbulb" in your head when its completely overwhelm and confused. It makes you shout "WOW" silently in your head.I think the author did a heck of a job in terms of writing a book about explaining. It requires him to "explain" what is explanation. That is a hell of a job.KUDOS to the author. He nailed it.At the end of the book, i was completely blown away. I came away knowing a lot hell more about the importance of good explanations.Get this book if you are an Educator or Coach. Heck, It would apply regardless of any field you are in.Get this book, if you want to know how to get across to your target audience.Get this book if you want to know about making things easier to understand.Or simply get this book if you want to see how you yourself gets blown away by how the author "explains" the art of explanation.

Reviewer: kirchenn
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: How to achieve your goals through a carefully planned explanation
Review: I am an information architect and explanations kind of go with a job. I'm not saying I am an extremely good explainer, but I do that a lot, so I've already known or guessed about most of what is written in the book. However, I've never thought about an explanation as a process with a defined structure and a beforehand planning, and I've never put together all those little things we all use when explaining something in such a way that it would make a deliberate pitch to a defined audience and reached the goal that YOU want to reach, considering the exact buttons to push for your given audience. The book has definitely enriched my overall understanding of how to approach different problems in my line of work. Thank you, Lee and Sachi!

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Plain Spoken Useful Explanation of Explanation
Review: The Art of Explanation is a very approachable "how to" guide for creating explanations. I thought it was wonderfully clear and well-organized. LeFever has a knack for simplifying concepts without dumbing them down too much.In terms of criticism, parts of the book come off as a transparent commercial for the Common Craft video production company. In all fairness though, I watched several Common Craft videos recommended in the text -- the videos provided excellent real-life application examples of the concepts that LeFever presents.One more item of criticism, parts of this book were copied from Dan Roam's Back of the Napkin. LeFever gives proper credit to Roam, but it irks me just a little to see content photo-copied from another book sold under a different title.Even so, I recommend this book to anybody charged with explaining things to other people: teachers, researchers, speakers, trainers, sales professionals, and executives could all benefit from the explanatory structure contained in these pages.

Reviewer: Melodie Moore
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Amazing book, helps you tp understand how you are explaining things. A few others have been written that are based off of iths one.

Reviewer: Manuccio
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Capita spesso di avere la sensazione di non riuscire a spiegarsi al meglio. Lo intuisci dalle facce perplesse dei tuoi interlocutori, oppure mentre spieghi, ti prende quella sensazione di sconforto e ti dici: "non mi sto spiegando bene."Capita anche quando devi spiegare un nuovo progetto o un tuo prodotto. Ed è qui che questo libro entra in gioco. Fornisce un modello utile e semplice da utilizzare quando devi spiegare qualsiasi cosa, dalla più semplice alla più complessa.Lavorando con le presentazioni e i public speaking l'ho trovato utilissimo, ma da tenere presente anche nelle riunioni a lavoro o nella scrittura di una mail o di un documento.. Non si può mai essere sicuri di essersi spiegati bene, questo libro ti togli alcuni dubbi a riguardo e ti fa essere un comunicatore migliore.

Reviewer: Paul Williams
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Lee’s concepts for creating clear explanations are outstanding. Framing the audience or reader on the “explanation scale” before putting pen to paper fixes the need to think about relevant context before hitting the details. I recommend this book to anyone writing a how-to book. In fact The Art of Explanation is a model how-to book. Wish I had it years ago.

Reviewer: Sreramkumar
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Excellent book. A must for all

Reviewer: jumani
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This book is easy to read and provides excellent tools and techniques to think differently about how to explain various subjects. Whether you apply these techniques with your kids, your friends or in your professional life, The impact will be instantaneous.Some examples might seem a repeat of the overall explanation, and could have been shortened. But they nonetheless illustrate the points made by the author, and help clarifying the whole "art of explanation".