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Smart BrevityBook

by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz

Who uses, recommends or left Smart Brevity, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Luc Levesque
Growth advisor; previously led growth at Shopify, Meta and TripAdvisor.
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it's called smart brevity have you heard of this one no but I love the sound of it I've always been big on you know writing crisply uh and being very tight and not having like three page memos that you're sending off especially now that we're remote and we're all doing slack and email and and uh different ways of messaging how tightly you communicate how crisp your communication is is really important for frankly you getting your point across and also for the other person who's probably digesting 100 of these messages so this book is uh it's a book on how to do that it's uh it breaks down how to write crisply and the different parts of it and I've definitely seen improvements in the team since I've passed around so that's a great book if frankly for anybody

Lenny's Podcast, "Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). The guest says they have recommended it to a couple hundred people.

2023-06-15·youtube.com ↗

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