The Say It With Charts Complete Toolkit [Paperback]

Gene Zelazny (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071474706 | ISBN-13: 978-0071474702 | Publication Date: November 16, 2006 | Edition: 1

The Complete Do-It-Yourself Kit for Creating Powerful, Interactive Presentations

Master presenter Gene Zelazny has shown thousands of professionals around the world how to design and deliver successful presentations. Now, he combines his bestselling Say It With Charts with his Say It With Charts Workbook into one comprehensive volume-complete with an all-new CD that lets you download and implement Zelazny's potent PowerPoint charts, graphs, and visuals!

This first-of-its-kind Toolkit reveals time-tested tips for putting your message in visual form and translating data into eye-catching, persuasive charts and multimedia presentations. Zelazny offers step-by-step advice on selecting and preparing the right charts, emphasizing key points, and encouraging your audience become active participants. He also shows you how to use today's digital technologies to create easy-to-follow, attention-grabbing visuals. Nowhere else will you find such comprehensive, authoritative information on:

• The different types of charts for any presentation
• Audience-tested techniques for communicating information
• Hands-on recommendations for lettering size, color, appropriate chart types, and more
• Techniques for dramatic eVisuals using animation, scanned images, sound video, and links to pertinent websites
• Tactics for customizing graphics to specific audiences

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About the Author

Gene Zelazny is the Director of Visual Communications at McKinsey & Company, where he has provided creative advice to thousands of professionals for over forty years. He has lectured at many of today's top business schools, including Columbia, Harvard, Michigan,, INSEAD, Sloan, Stanford, Tuck and Wharton.

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (November 16, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071474706
• ISBN-13: 978-0071474702
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gene Zelazny is Director of Visual Communications for McKinsey and Company, and has over 40 years of experience working with colleagues and clients to design powerful management reports and presentations. In addition, Zelazny frequently presents his ideas at the world's top business schools, including Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Wharton, Haas, MIT, Oxford, Kellogg, Stanford, Tuck, INSEAD, and others. He also is author of the how-to classic Say It With Presentations.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars excellent book ; piss-poor software, April 21, 2008

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Jeremy B. Pettit "novice" (Princeton, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Say It With Charts Complete Toolkit (Paperback)

The book is a classic in consulting. I purchased the "toolkit" thinking / hoping that the text would have been updated since it's 35mm slide days. It wasn't. My other hope was that the software would be something to really improve/ spice up the graphics of my presentations, which are largely based on Zelany's approach. It's not. The software is pretty much image files of the text's graphics which, as I mentioned above, haven't been updated since the Reagan administration.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Book still great, toolkit lame, March 3, 2010

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Barend (Netherlands) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Say It With Charts Complete Toolkit (Paperback)

The book is what I was looking for. I know Gene Zelazny's work, and I got wat I expected. The toolkit however is not very special. You have to install a not very user friendly application in which you can find most of the drawings of the book. In my experiency a simple google query brings you the same quality.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Complete Say It With Charts Toolkit, September 13, 2011

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This review is from: The Say It With Charts Complete Toolkit (Paperback)

The book was what I expected. Not great, but helpful. However, the tool kit is very disappointing. The graphics are of extremely poor quality, its organization inexistent, and the creativity is childish. The tool kit is not worth a dime.