Book Titles

Quiet Leadership
Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work

By David Rock

Year Published: 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0060835903
Categories: Leadership, Performance

85 Quotes Found

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Quiet Leadership:

…using visuals draws listeners in and allows them to make their own mental maps of your ideas.

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Quiet Leadership:

By cutting to the heart of the issue, you keep people’s attention and interest.

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Quiet Leadership:

When other people are able to make their own mental picture of what we’re saying, their brain sends a signal to the head to nod a little. It’s unconscious and it’s universal.

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Quiet Leadership:

Put succinctly, specifically, and generously, being generous is about being committed to the other person getting your message.

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Quiet Leadership:

If you want people to think big thoughts, you need them to feel safe.

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Quiet Leadership:

Sharing personal information can help people feel more at ease with you and therefore more willing to think challenging thoughts.

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Quiet Leadership:

Being generous invites the other person to take the conversation to a deeper level, away from the surface facts and details, into vision and planning, into higher thoughts.

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Quiet Leadership:

Being generous opens up the possibility of learning and change.

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Quiet Leadership:

…to help people have insights, we need to encourage them to reflect more, and think less – or at least less logically.

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Quiet Leadership:

Having an insight is one of life’s most pleasant moments.

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