Supercommunicator, Frank J. Pietrucha
Supercommunicator, Frank J. Pietrucha
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Supercommunicator
Explaining the Complicated So Anyone Can Understand

Author: Frank J. Pietrucha

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 6 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 05/01/2014


Synopsis

In our increasingly complicated and data-driven world, many new developments are so complex that only experts comprehend their nuances. But what they don't grasp is how to tell the world about them. Communicating technical content to nontechnical listeners has fast become a critical 21st-century skill. Explaining what you do and why it's important drives funding, policy decisions, media exposure, public awareness, and customer adoption.

This groundbreaking guide will help anyone to deliver clear, persuasive messages that win hearts, minds, and budgets. Supercommunicator explains how to:

? Distill details and data into big ideas

? Deliver meaning to audiences

? Use storytelling to captivate and educate

? Humanize content to make complicated ideas more tangible

? Layer harder ideas on top of easier ideas

? Strip away complex language, jargon, and acronyms

? Use analogies to explain unfamiliar areas

? Master new digital modes of expression

? And more

Enhanced with a wealth of examples--from how the National Academy of Sciences used audience research to improve the way evolution is taught, to how NASA incorporated cutting-edge tools to visualize issues in climatology--this one-of-a-kind audiobook reveals how to make the complex comprehensible, and the dry deeply compelling.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on July 07, 2015

Pretty basic and high level. I found the writing style engaging, but the content didn't really stand out compared to the mass of books dealing with the same subject. If you haven't read books on how to communicate that focused on making things simple, this is a fine one to start with. If you have re......more

Goodreads review by Old Man on January 29, 2023

What are your favorite quotes from the book? "Effective communications promote reflective reasoning by helping people open their minds to dig past the superficial and find deeper meaning." "The abundance of data - both hurtling through cyberspace and in our everyday, pen-and-paper lives can easily pus......more

Goodreads review by Bianca on March 02, 2014

I'm sorry, but I only made it 20% in. It reads like a first draft, and even an ARC needs to be more polished than this. My annotations were mainly correcting outdated facts (Apple has been selling multimedia ebooks for at least a year, they're not coming), or making notes to research the claims and s......more

Goodreads review by William on July 27, 2018

"Supercommunicator" claims to explain the complicated so that anyone can understand. Written by Frank J. Pietrucha, this book discusses the ideas of communication in the age of internet and instant gratification. Many of the experts in this book argue that people have lost the ability and desire to......more

Goodreads review by Amber on July 18, 2019

There are some really good tips in here, but I've gotten them from other sources as well. It does have some practical steps for communications that everyone should follow, but if you have read a number of books on communications, marketing, and writing you'll find that you already know 95% of it.......more