
The Language of Leaders
How Top CEOs Communicate to Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results
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Kogan Page Ltd (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 3. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7494-6812-5 (ISBN)
Description
Inspiring communication can make the difference between poor performance and exceptional results. This is why CEOs and HR professionals now believe that the ability to understand, motivate and inspire others is the characteristic that is most important when recruiting senior leaders. Many leaders wrongly perceive they have to become inspired orators if they are to inspire others. Wrong.
Language is a system of communication, so the issue is: what system should leaders use to inspire brilliant results?
This is the question Kevin Murray answers in The Language of Leaders. Based on original interviews with an extraordinary list of more than 70 top leaders from a wide range of business and public sector organizations, this book provides a unique insight into how these leaders have responded to the demands of a transparent world. It reports on what they have learned and creates a lexicon for successful communication. The message from these leaders is resoundingly clear - communication is now one of the most crucial skills of leadership.
Filled with actionable lessons and insights from leaders of high-profile organizations, The Language of Leaders is an invaluable book for anybody in a leadership position, or who aspires to lead.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7494-6812-5 (9780749468125)
Schweitzer Classification
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Kevin Murray
The Language of Leaders
How Top CEOs Communicate to Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results
E-Book
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2nd Edition
Kogan Page Ltd
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Kevin Murray
The Language of Leaders
How Top CEOs Communicate to Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results
Book
11/2011
1st Edition
Kogan Page Ltd
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Person
Author
Kevin Murray is a business author and speaker with more than 45 years of leadership experience, based in the UK. He ran the UK's biggest PR and communications group for 20 years, from where he also personally advised dozens of CEO's from major global and national companies. Previously, he had been director of communications for British Airways, The Atomic Energy Authority and Bayer, the chemicals company. Kevin Murray is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.
His four business books are all published by Kogan Page: The Language of Leaders; Communicate to Inspire; People with Purpose; Charismatic Leadership.
Content
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- Chapter - 00: Introduction: communicate to inspire;
- Section - ONE: Why you need to be a better communicator if you want to lead;
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- Chapter - 01: Napoleon's leadership legacy;
- Chapter - 02: Leadership transformed - life in the fishbowl;
- Chapter - 03: The 12 principles of leadership communication;
- Section - TWO: The fundamentals;
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- Chapter - 04: Learn to be yourself, better;
- Chapter - 05: Provide a framework for leadership and action, through mission and values;
- Chapter - 06: Communicate the future to drive the present;
- Chapter - 07: Bring the outside in and focus on building relationships and trust;
- Chapter - 08: Engage and align through conversations;
- Section - THREE: Communicate, communicate, communicate;
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- Chapter - 09: It's all about them - the need for audience centricity;
- Chapter - 10: The inspiring effect of listening leaders;
- Chapter - 11: Stand up to stand out - why you need a point of view;
- Chapter - 12: The power of stories;
- Chapter - 13: Watch out for the undermining signals beyond the words;
- Chapter - 14: Prepare properly for public platforms;
- Section - FOUR: Conclusion;
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- Chapter - 15: Learn, rehearse, review, improve; become fluent in the language of leaders;
- Chapter - 16: Leadership in the public sector - is it different?;
- Chapter - 17: If you remember nothing else...;
- Chapter - 18: The tough questions all leaders need to ask of themselves