Title : The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative (Hardcover)
Title : The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative (Hardcover)
Author : Stephen Denning
“If business leaders do not immediately grasp the vital insights offered by this book, both they and their organisations are doomed.”–Stefan Stern, Financial Times
“Steve Denning is the Warren Buffett of business communication. He sees things others don’t and is able to explain them so the rest of us can understand.”–Chip Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
“I highly recommend you get it today and read it tonight. Tomorrow will be an entirely different kind of day if you do.”—Jim Kouzes, Co-author of the best-selling, The Leadership Challenge, and A Leader’s Legacy
“The Secret Language of Leadership has been instrumental in helping me overcome the challenges of rapid growth and intense competition. It’s all about the story.”–Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix Inc.
“I don’t think I have ever read a more compelling preface. And best of all, the advice Denning gives to the reader about speaking and writing is exemplified in the way he has written this impressive book.”–James MacGregor Burns, distinguished senior scholar, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland, and author of Leadership
“The Secret Language of Leadership is not only the best analysis I have seen of how and why leaders succeed or fail, it’s highly readable, as well as downright practical. It should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in engaging a company with big ideas who understands that leaders live and die by the quality of what they say.”–Richard Stone, story analytics master, i.d.e.a.s