Even the best ideas and analysis can be rendered meaningless unless they are effectively communicated. Gene Zelazny, McKinsey’s director of Visual Communications, has synthesized learning based on 40 years of experience in making and designing effective presentations.
His books not only provide practical guidelines and how to’s but also lay out the important tenets of communicating effectively during presentations: clarity and simplicity.
Say It with Presentations: How to Design and Deliver Successful Business Presentations
This book provides insights and techniques to make presentations interesting, inspiring, and, most of all, effective.
Say It with Charts: The Executive’s Guide to Visual Communication, Fourth Edition
In its fourth edition, Say It with Charts, provides a portfolio of more than 80 complete charts plus a dictionary of 150 visual images that can be used to visualize non-quantitative ideas.
