Obtain Drop The Pink Elephant: 15 Ways To Say What You Mean...and Mean What You Say Produced By Bill McFarlan Issued As File

is a great little book on how to communicate more clearly and effectively, The "pink elephant" is a word or phrase that waters down your message e, g. "hopefully", "I'll try", or "I'll do my best" or a "not" which in fact gives the audience the exact opposite message to the one you want to get across cf Bill Clinton's infamous "I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman".
The author comes across as being credible, also offering up his own embarrassing mistakes to show that no one is perfect and we can always improve.
I think we have to constantly remind ourselves of these little "rules", and it'll definitely be worth rereading this book further down the line.
The author of the book of the same title, Bill McFarlan, is a journalist, broadcaster and Managing Director of a Britains media consultancy firm.
The book reveals how to avoid the deadly trap of allowing poor communication skills to obscure your meaning and reduce your effectiveness, “Pink Elephants” are the unnecessary negatives that clutter your conversation and meaning, sending out the wrong signals to anyone you communicate with,

Some examples and phrases of Pink Elephants:

“Telling my story was never about money, ”
Paul Burrell, former butler to Princess Diana who sold his story to the Daily Mirror,

“I dont want to gossip but ”

“No offence but ”

“But I dont think its been done with malicious intent.
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Pink Elephants only draw attention to the very thing you want to avoid,

Be positive in your writing or conversation, Drop the Pink Elephants. There is no need to use negative words, If you have nothing to hide, words used will be honest, The bottom line: be truthful and be aware of Pink Elephants in your conversations,

The book covers suggestions to sharpen your conversation by:

first spotting, then dropping the Pink Elephant
getting rid of the jargon
learning to speak in pictures
recognising when you should apologise or thank people
captivating an audience
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: Very good and found it to be very practical, with a good amount of real world examples Fantastic book on communication!! A few useful tips but mostly stating the obvious and too many examples/name dropping.
Found it a bit rambling at times too, Good job it was short and didn't take too much time to finish, Language is really facsinating! I had a good learning from this book, We normally don't watch the true meaning of our or other's talk ! this book makes our understanding different and in the right direction.
Very insightful read Interesting and good thing to read, I read this book as part of a personal development book club in work, it was easy to read and male complete sense, I pick up on poor communication and pink elephants regularly now, helped my awareness كتاب لتطوير مهارات التحدث و التخاطب
نصائح فعلا مفيدة و قصص ممتعه
كتاب قراءه خفيفة قرأت معظمه في السيارة من وإلى العمل
Highlights the 'Do's and 'Don't's of Communication, The beauty lies in the simplicity of the words, very cleverly written, A must read for all those who think that they can communicate and those who can't! An excellent, easy to read guide that'll help the novice, and remind the experienced, how to communicate effectively.
Wonderful book for anyone that communicates that would be all of us, The author is British and some of his references are a little odd for American readers, but still appropriate, I'm very impressed with this book, I initially thought it would help me at work but I think it will help me everywhere in my life, I highly recommend Pink Elephants I first read this book several years ago and it bears rereading, Communication is not an exact science and anything we can do to make our communications easy to understand the more likely we are to get our message over to the people who need to hear it.
Apart from the quirky title and the pink elephant cartoons and footprints throughout this book it does have some serious messages for everyone not just in the workplace.


How often do you say something and mean the opposite How often have people interpreted what youve said in completely the wrong way This book will show you how you can say things so that people will get the message that you want them to receive.
It will also tell you how not to bore your listeners to tears by telling them at length about things in which they can have no possible interest.


The book is about listening as well as talking and about all forms of communication not just speech, Any form of instant communication can lead you into all sorts of problems if you dont think about what youve written before you press the send button.
Read this book and think twice or three times before you send your tactless communications into cyberspace and alienate the people youre supposed to be getting o your side.

A really easy to read but very useful book on effective communication, I really enjoyed it this is an ongoing read for me, everytime i can't get my foot outta my mouth, i pick this book up : Reads like a selfhelp book from Alan Partridge, replete with anecdotes involving dlist celebrities from thes and an important squash match, the result of which I will not spoil for you.
Needless to say, however, that the author had the last laugh,

Foreword is, of course, by Eamonn Holmes,

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points on, but he's had to stretch it out to a fullpages to make people feel they're getting good value.
Just skip to the recap at the end of each chapter, كتاب مترابط كل جزء متصل بالآخر

وبالفعل أصبحت ألتقط الفيل الزهري في حوارات الآخرين وكان هذا الجزء ممتع

والجزء المتعب حين كنت أبحث عن بدائل لجمل الفيل الزهري

أشعرني بأن المفردات لدي قليلة

وأعجبني أسلوب الاعتذار فعلا رآئع ومؤثر رغم بساطته

ولاحظت أن صفحةتلخص الكتاب بشكل نقطي

والآن سأذهب لأتدرب على استبعاد الفيل الزهري كتاب سلس ومفيد يساعدك في تطوير مهاراتك في التواصل بوضوح وإيجابية I loved this book, learnt lots about communication. Would definitely recommend to all from public speakers to house wives! Drop the Pink Elephant:Ways to Say What You Mean, . . and Mean What You Say,