•  When was the last time a politician used words that rang with truth and meaning?

•  Do you eyes glaze over when reading a letter from your bank or super fund?

•  When your employer tells you to make a commitment going forwards, or speaking of enhancing the bottom line, does your mind shut down?

Today's corporations, government departments, news media, sports people, and, perhaps most dangerously, politicians - speak to each other and to us in clichéd, impenetrable, lifeless sludge.

It's a dead language: devoid of lyric or comic possibility, incapable of emotion, complexity or nuance.

Don Watson can bear it no longer. In DEATH SENTENCE, part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia 's public language, he takes a blowtorch to the words - and their users - who kill joy, imagination and clarity.

Scathing, funny and brilliant…DEATH SENTENCE is a small book of profound weight - and timeliness.

DON WATSON

Don Watson's work, both serious and satirical, has appeared in most of Australia 's major journals and newspapers and on television, radio, stage and screen.

He was speechwriter and adviser to the former Prime Minister Paul Keating and is the author of CALEDONIA AUSTRALIS and RECOLLECTIONS OF A BLEEDING HEART: A PORTRAIT OF PAUL KEATING PM.

RECOLLECTIONS received rave reviews on its release last year, and became a #1 Best-seller.

It was awarded The Age Non-Fiction Prize and Book of the Year Award, the Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award, the National Biography Award, Colin Roderick Award, the Australian Women's Weekly People's Choice Award and the Australian Booksellers' Association Book of the Year Award.

It was short-listed for the NSW Premier's Awards.

In terms of our lives, what could do more to enhance them going forwards than a commitment to world class communications?

In DEATH SENTENCE Don Watson prioritizes the Word in terms of its written and spoken contexts. Robust implementation of the scenario he outlines has the potential to significantly enhance key communications outcomes on a global basis.

Implicit in the text are core strategies to empower in real terms every individual and organization.

DEATH SENTENCE will make you and your team more transparent, vibrant and accountable, and put continuous improvement going forwards within the reach of all with the vision to set this key goal.

Read holistically as he intended, Watson's DEATH SENTENCE will impact positively on everyone who opens it.

Here is a key business input, and what's more, one that hopefully the whole family can enjoy.

If you don't want the world of words to look like this, Don Watson's DEATH SENTENCE will appeal.