Smart Brevity, Jim VandeHei
Smart Brevity, Jim VandeHei
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Smart Brevity
The Power of Saying More with Less

Author: Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz

Narrator: Mark Chamberlin

Unabridged: 3 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communication formula built by Axios journalists to prioritize essential news and information, explain its impact and deliver it in a concise and visual format. Now, the co-founders of Axios have created an essential guide for communicating effectively and efficiently using Smart Brevity—think Strunk and White’s Elements of Style for the digital age.
 
In SMART BREVITY: The Power of Saying More with Less, Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz teach readers how to say more with less in virtually any format. They also share communications lessons learned from their decades of experience in media, business and communications.
 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vincent on October 09, 2022

A three-hour infomercial about how to write for people who don't read, which is now supposedly everybody. Mostly warmed over journalistic principles, yet journalists are presented as egregious violators of the principles. Sure, brevity is good, but here a kind of creepy, corporate bot-speak. You say......more

Goodreads review by Isaac on October 05, 2022

Adding this to the "All-time-favorites" shelf. HERE'S WHY: 1. I've been a lover and consumer of Axios news for some time now 2. This book offers clear and actionable advice on how to write better and more clearly 3. I'll be using this immediately in work, life, and any time I need to communicate WHAT......more

Goodreads review by Garrett on July 31, 2022

Ironically, while useful, this book is overlong. Once it's done breaking down the helpful information and approaches to implementing it, it sees the need (page length?) to get specific in a really granular way which anyone reading the book would seemingly be able to interpret and extrapolate on thei......more

Goodreads review by Sebastian on February 26, 2023

It could have been a blog post :) But instead, it's an advertisement of Axios you're paying for with both your time and wallet, hehe. To be (slightly) more serious: + good call for action + some good examples, some good advice - definitely over-bloated and repetitive - in too many cases, brevity gets surp......more

Goodreads review by Felicia on January 19, 2023

Well written and good instruction, however, this was clearly written by men. As a woman in the corporate world, I have been scrutinized for being aggressive, assertive and curt when following this style. It has taken years to try and be less straightforward to come across as polite (just as us women......more