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  • Leadership Is Language

  • The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don't
  • By: L. David Marquet
  • Narrated by: L. David Marquet
  • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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Leadership Is Language

By: L. David Marquet
Narrated by: L. David Marquet
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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.

©2020 L. David Marquet (P)2020 Penguin Audio
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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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Excellent book

I always enjoy books read by the author and this was no exception. Gave me a lot to think about and used several varied and unique examples to illustrate the points to be made.

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