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    Harvard Business Review on Effective Communication
    Harvard Business Review

    Topics include how to run a successful meeting, change frontline employees' behavior, and build effective management teams

       
    The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, (2nd Edition)
    By Edward Tufte

    The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, and tables. Theory and practice in the design of data and statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, and/or quick analysis.

       
    Envisioning Information
    By Edward Tufte

    The most design-oriented of Tufte's books. Superb displays of high-dimensional, complex data and provides practical advice about how to explain complicated material by visual means, with extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of information displays.

       

    Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
    By Edward Tufte

    Offers practical applications and examples of statistical graphics, charts for making important decisions in engineering and medicine, diagrams, design of computer interfaces, websites and on-line manuals, and design strategies for enhancing the rate of information transfer in print, presentations and computer screens.

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    Say It With Charts: The Executive's Guide to Visual Communication
    By Gene Zelazny

    A step-by-step guide to creating compelling, memorable presentations. Explains the basics behind creating a powerful visual - what to say, why to say it, and how to say it for the most impact.

       
    Say It with Presentations: How to Design and Deliver Successful Business Presentations
    By Gene Zelazny

    Details how to organize a powerful and effective business presentation and deliver it with style.

       
    no image The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving
    By Barbara Minto

    Presents concepts that could fundamentally change the way you communicate, think through issues and present ideas. Excellent use of worked examples, case studies and diagrams.

       
    Guide to Managerial Communication: Effective Business Writing and Speaking (5th Edition)
    By Mary Munter

    Discusses how to communicate in the business world by providing instruction on establishing a strategy, presenting what you want to say, and techniques for speaking or writing more efficiently and effectively. Very detailed, but easy to read and to the point.

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    The Customer Century: Lessons from World-Class Companies in Integrated Marketing and Communications
    By Anders Gronstedt

    Gives practical, real-world examples from a dozen companies that seem to be getting it right including FedEx, Hewlett-Packard, GM Saturn, and ABB. The book comprehensively shows how to strategically manage communications at every point of contact with customers and stakeholders. Very readable and an excellent organizational communications resource.

       
    The Influence Edge: How to Persuade Others to Help You Achieve Your Goals
    By Alan A. Vengel

    Explains the skills you need to enlist the cooperation of others, inside and outside the organization, and to achieve your professional goals. Vengel, an experienced organizational consultant, offers tips on how to influence without authority, sell your ideas and build better relationships. This book will help you get faster results and move people to action by using a systematic, step-by-step approach.

       
    Managing Strategic Relationships: The Key to Business Success
    By Leonard Greenhalgh

    Provides an insightful understanding of the importance of relationships in organizations. The book offers a critical, yet helpful, eye on negotiations, strategic alliances, and a variety of other contemporary management topics. Gives good advice on building business relationships that promote harmony and mutual value.

       
    Managing Strategic Relationships: The Key to Business Success
    By Leonard Greenhalgh

    Provides an insightful understanding of the importance of relationships in organizations. The book offers a critical, yet helpful, eye on negotiations, strategic alliances, and a variety of other contemporary management topics. Gives good advice on building business relationships that promote harmony and mutual value.

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    Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
    By Daniel Goleman

    Focuses on the four domains of Emotional Intelligence - self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management - and their associated leadership styles. One of the key leadership styles, resonant leadership, is the tendency of employees to perceive the business environment in the same manner that their leaders do. The moods, opinions, and actions of the leaders resonate in the employees creating the same feelings.

       
    The Business Writer's Handbook (6th Edition)
    By Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw and Walter E. Oliu

    Offers readers a detailed understanding of how to write formal business correspondences. The handbook is an essential resource and entries are alphabetized for ease of use.

       
    Communicating for Change: Connecting the Workplace with the Marketplace
    By Roger D'Aprix

    Clearly describes communication principles and how to use internal communications to make your organization more effective. This concise book outlines the best strategic communications model along with statistics and real and fictitious case histories to convince and persuade.

       
    Communicating Change: Winning Employee Support for New Business Goals
    By T.J. Larkin and Sandar Larkin


    Completely shatters the myths around traditional corporate communication practices based on research in organizational communication plus the author's own consulting experience. The book shows how to direct attention to what needs to be done for business success; who needs what information in order to achieve success; and how to set about devising measurable systems that make people fundamentally accountable for results.

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