Author: Chris Anderson

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Comments: The director of the extraordinarily successful TED Talks conferences since 2000, Chris Anderson, has worked behind the scenes to create a really effective way of communicating ideas of all sorts with a truly eclectic range of speakers. As one commentator has put it: "The TED Talk has reinvented the art of rhetoric for the 21st century. Goodbye to windy academese, scientific gobbledygook, pompous moralizing, powerpoint chloroform – we now know that "ideas worth spreading" can indeed be spread far and wide, and with clarity and panache." All of us can benefit from some improvement in our communication.