L. David Marquet Leadership Is Language Paperback Book

Full of compelling advice on how to lead more effectively by choosing your words more wisely ADAM GRANT | FINANCIAL TIMES Book of the MonthYour 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 its 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, youll learn How to avoid the seven common sins of questioning, from binary questions (should we do A or B?) to selfaffirming 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 its better to give your people information instead of instructionsAs a submarine captain, Marquet used his counterintuitive model of leadership to turn the worstperforming submarine crew into the bestperforming 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... | L. David Marquet Leadership Is Language Paperback Book