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Leadership Is Language
- The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don't
- Narrated by: L. David Marquet
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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Summary
Your words matter more than you think
Most of us use the language we inherited from a time when workers worked with their hands and managers worked with their heads. Today, your people do much more than simply follow orders. They contribute to performance and solve problems, and it's time we updated our language to reflect that.
In Leadership Is Language, former US Navy captain L. David Marquet offers a radical playbook to empower your people and put your team on a path to continuous improvement. The framework will help you achieve the right balance between deliberation and action, and take bold risks without endangering your mission. Among other things, you'll learn:
- How to avoid the seven common sins of questioning, from binary questions (should we do A or B?) to self-affirming questions (B is the better option, right?)
- Why you should vote first, then discuss, when deciding on a plan with your team, rather than voting after discussion
- Why it's better to give your people information instead of instructions
As a submarine captain, Marquet used his counterintuitive model of leadership to turn the worst-performing submarine crew into the best-performing one in the fleet, a story he recounted in his bestselling book Turn the Ship Around! Now, in Leadership Is Language, he draws on a wide range of examples, from the 2017 Oscars Best Picture mishap to the tragic sinking of the SS El Faro, to show you exactly how the words you use (and don't use) impact how your people contribute.
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"Full of compelling advice on how to lead more effectively by choosing your words more wisely." (Adam Grant, author of Originals and Give and Take)
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- Paul
- 07-05-20
A modern masterpiece
Prior to reading this, I had one book I'd recommend above all others in the field of technology management, now I have to start recommending two!
I've always felt aware of how important what you say is in terms of getting the most out of people. This book absolutely nails it for our modern era. Excellent.
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- SH
- 06-05-20
Tremendous
Jumped straight into my top ten leadership books of
all time. Thoughtful content and enthusiastic narration. Top class.
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- Prasad S.
- 10-04-20
A must read not just for people in leadership roles
This is one of the best books I've listened to. The fact that the author is also the narrator makes the communication very effective and quite entertaining.
I thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from the book as it helped me reflect upon my actions and decisions as a leader and exposed the areas of improvement, which otherwise I had considered to be my strengths. To some extent, it was like a repository of every mistake I made as a leader under target pressures and getting a personalised lecture on how to have handled the situation/decision making differently. It was an opportunity to introspect and relearn some of key people and team skills.
I have recommended this book to my team, irrespective of what level there're at. In my opinion, it is a must read/listen for anyone in leadership role.
Most importantly, it's helped me be a servant leader, again.
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- Eleonora
- 24-02-20
detailed - clear - engaging -interesting educating
loved to learn about the difference between blue and red work and how to fine tune the delicate balance between the two. Found extremely helpful thinking about the difference between intentions and behaviours. And empowering focusing on controlling the clock instead of obaying the clock! ultimately I admire how the author structured the book. Highly valuable read
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- Colin Beveridge
- 23-02-20
Great book, easy listen
Being new to all this I have tried several books on leadership and management , This is by far my favourite, lots of usefull tools and strategies.
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- Sonic-Field
- 04-10-21
Well worth aisten
Good ideas and content. I would recommend listening whilst doing something else (walking in my case). The book is structured around repetition which helps if you are not concentrating but would be tedious if you were.
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- Si_P
- 26-08-21
An inspiring and refreshing approach to leadership
Practical advice and good narration by the author makes this leadership model come alive.
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- LC
- 08-09-20
Excellent leadership learning resource
Really useful and actionable leadership techniques around language and communication, along with plenty of nice examples of the right and wrong way, and their consequences.
Worth re-reading periodically.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-03-24
nice real world example
nice real world examples to give context to the principles (plays) that are explained.
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- Marco
- 28-02-24
Red work blue work
The author just keeps repeating the same concepts over and over. However, I found interesting some of the practical examples he gave.
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