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Language of Leaders: How Top CEOs Communicate to Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results
The difference between competent communication and inspiring communication can be the difference between poor performance and outstanding results. The traditional model for what constitutes a good leader is changing and CEOs and HR professionals now believe the ability to understand, motivate and inspire others is the characteristic that is most important when recuiting senior leaders.
Based on original interviews with an extraordinary list of 60 top leaders from a wide range of business sectors, The Language of Leaders provides a unique insight into how these leaders have responded to the demands of a transparent world, reports on what they have learned and creates a lexicon for successful communication.
Their message is resoundingly clear - communication is one of the top three crucial skills of leadership. It is only through mastering this skill that leaders can effectively engage with people within and outside an organization and ultimately build trust - the essential pre-requisite of success.
Filled with actionable lessons and insights from leading CEOs of high-profile global organizations, The Language of Leaders is a book that anybody in a leadership position, or who aspires to lead, should read and keep on their desks.
Companies included are Airbus, Barclays, Deloitte, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, Red Cross, Unilever and more.
The leaders in this book talk why trust is essential to leadership the need to articulate a mission that goes beyond profit as a motive how they create leaders throughout their organizations how they bring external views of their organization in to drive change how they use conversations to engage and motivate people what characteristics they look for when hiring leaders what steps need to be taken in order to become a more effective communicator
Based on original interviews with an extraordinary list of 60 top leaders from a wide range of business sectors, The Language of Leaders provides a unique insight into how these leaders have responded to the demands of a transparent world, reports on what they have learned and creates a lexicon for successful communication.
Their message is resoundingly clear - communication is one of the top three crucial skills of leadership. It is only through mastering this skill that leaders can effectively engage with people within and outside an organization and ultimately build trust - the essential pre-requisite of success.
Filled with actionable lessons and insights from leading CEOs of high-profile global organizations, The Language of Leaders is a book that anybody in a leadership position, or who aspires to lead, should read and keep on their desks.
Companies included are Airbus, Barclays, Deloitte, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, Red Cross, Unilever and more.
The leaders in this book talk why trust is essential to leadership the need to articulate a mission that goes beyond profit as a motive how they create leaders throughout their organizations how they bring external views of their organization in to drive change how they use conversations to engage and motivate people what characteristics they look for when hiring leaders what steps need to be taken in order to become a more effective communicator
240 pages, Hardcover
First published November 3, 2011
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February 9, 2012
I expected this book to be practical advice for those in positions of leadership, but unless they intend to take a degree in public relations they might find it too dense to get through quickly. Yet for a public relations student the content is excellent: communications based on transparency, authenticity and relationship-building, and there is an abundance of applied examples that could be useful in their study. www.GoodReadingGuide.com
February 21, 2022
A wise Executive once told me, 'as organizations change so too their leadership requirements' and that maxim has stayed with me since the time it was uttered. There are some fundamentals of leadership which, however, do not change in the fundamental sense of the term but rather become more accentuated by the sharper need for them. Such an element is communication.
And communication is Kevin D. Murray's bread-and-butter in The Language of Leaders . Yes, the man focuses almost myopically on public relations and that too within the UK sphere of industry leadership as well as public services executives. But this is only a slight fault when compared with the wisdom offered by all these leaders regarding only one thing: communication. The ability to communicate is supposedly one of the fundamental traits which allowed human evolution to reach the stage it did. Even today, the global village is predominantly built and based on communication.
So how do executive leaders, with thousands working under them globally, communicate? That is where Murray comes in with some savvy and tongue-in-cheek advice. His communication is easy to understand and is divided into practical solutions (though not one size fits all and we would be idiotic to expect that). My final opinion? Keep this one close. You will need it the most.
And communication is Kevin D. Murray's bread-and-butter in The Language of Leaders . Yes, the man focuses almost myopically on public relations and that too within the UK sphere of industry leadership as well as public services executives. But this is only a slight fault when compared with the wisdom offered by all these leaders regarding only one thing: communication. The ability to communicate is supposedly one of the fundamental traits which allowed human evolution to reach the stage it did. Even today, the global village is predominantly built and based on communication.
So how do executive leaders, with thousands working under them globally, communicate? That is where Murray comes in with some savvy and tongue-in-cheek advice. His communication is easy to understand and is divided into practical solutions (though not one size fits all and we would be idiotic to expect that). My final opinion? Keep this one close. You will need it the most.
May 7, 2017
Kepemimpinan Bertransformasi -- Hidup tanpa privasi di era globalisasi.
"Para pemimpin sejati itu dapat dilihat, yang menampakkan diri meski ia tengah ada di saat yang paling tidak nyaman."
"Para pemimpin sejati itu dapat dilihat, yang menampakkan diri meski ia tengah ada di saat yang paling tidak nyaman."
August 13, 2013
I very much appreciated this book for its subject, for the information it offers, as well as for the synhtesis Kevin Murray makes after every chapter and at the end of the work.
I consider that the book should be read by the political leaders of my home country, Romania.
I consider that the book should be read by the political leaders of my home country, Romania.
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