Description:
Smart Brevity is a writing and communications manifesto for the information age. It will teach readers how to communicate better with fewer words and more punch in their emails, newsletters, presentations, meetings, and much more at work and in life.
The big idea: If you want to get heard in the information age, you need to change the way you write. Now. Smart Brevity will teach you how.Brief description: Jim VandeHei is the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Axios, a media company focused on breaking news and invaluable insights across business, politics, technology and the world. Axios helps readers and viewers get smarter, faster across the consequential topics reshaping our country and lives. As CEO, VandeHei has steered Axios into becoming one of the most celebrated digital media success stories of the past decade. VandeHei is also an executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning docu-news series, "Axios on HBO."
Before Axios, VandeHei co-founded and was CEO of Politico, the media company that upended and revolutionized political and policy journalism in Washington, New York, and Europe. Overseeing both the editorial and business teams, VandeHei was the leading strategist behind its highly scalable and successful business model. Prior to this, VandeHei spent more than a decade as a reporter, covering the Presidency and Congress for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He was named national Editor of the Year in 2016. VandeHei is from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.Review Quotes: A Wall Street Journal and USA Today national bestseller!
"Smart... [it offers] ways to communicate in a short-attention-span world."--The New York Times' DealBook "A slick, engaging and...laudable effort to help communicators reach through the verbal haze and grab readers by the lapels."
--The Wall Street Journal "The writing of Smart Brevity is refreshingly taut and punchy; most of the sentences are finely crafted, short, and to the point, and rip across the page."
--The New Republic "The Axios founders' new book makes the case for condensed communication--in an increasingly complex world."
--The New Yorker