Leadership Is Language
The Hidden Power of What You Say - and What You Don't
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the acclaimed author of Turn the Ship Around!, former US Navy Captain David Marquet, comes a radical new playbook for empowering your team to make better decisions and take greater ownership.
You might imagine that an effective leader is someone who...
You might imagine that an effective leader is someone who...
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From the acclaimed author of Turn the Ship Around!, former US Navy Captain David Marquet, comes a radical new playbook for empowering your team to make better decisions and take greater ownership.You might imagine that an effective leader is someone who makes quick, intelligent decisions, gives inspiring speeches, and issues clear orders to their team so they can execute a plan to achieve your organization's goals. Unfortunately, David Marquet argues, that's an outdated model of leadership that just doesn't work anymore.
As a leader in today's networked, information-dense business climate, you don't have full visibility into your organization or the ground reality of your operating environment. In order to harness the eyes, ears, and minds of your people, you need to foster a climate of collaborative experimentation that encourages people to speak up when they notice problems and work together to identify and test solutions.
Too many leaders fall in love with the sound of their own voice, and wind up dictating plans and digging in their heels when problems begin to emerge. Even when you want to be a more collaborative leader, you can undermine your own efforts by defaulting to command-and-control language we've inherited from the industrial era.
It's time to ditch the industrial age playbook of leadership. In Leadership is Language, you'll learn how choosing your words can dramatically improve decision-making and execution on your team. Marquet outlines six plays for all leaders, anchored in how you use language:
* Control the clock, don't obey the clock: Pre-plan decision points and give your people the tools they need to hit pause on a plan of action if they notice something wrong.
* Collaborate, don't coerce: As the leader, you should be the last one to offer your opinion. Rather than locking your team into binary responses ("Is this a good plan?"), allow them to answer on a scale ("How confident are you about this plan?")
* Commit, don't
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comply: Rather than expect your team to comply with specific directions, explain your overall goals, and get their commitment to achieving it one piece at a time.
* Complete, not continue: If every day feels like a repetition of the last, you're doing something wrong. Articulate concrete plans with a start and end date to align your team.
* Improve, don't prove: Ask your people to improve on plans and processes, rather than prove that they can meet fixed goals or deadlines. You'll face fewer cut corners and better long-term results.
* Connect, don't conform: Flatten hierarchies in your organization and connect with your people to encourage them to contribute to decision-making.
In his last book, Turn the Ship Around!, Marquet told the incredible story of abandoning command-and-control leadership on his submarine and empowering his crew to turn the worst performing submarine to the best performer in the fleet. Now, with Leadership is Language he gives businesspeople the tools they need to achieve such transformational leadership in their organizations.
* Complete, not continue: If every day feels like a repetition of the last, you're doing something wrong. Articulate concrete plans with a start and end date to align your team.
* Improve, don't prove: Ask your people to improve on plans and processes, rather than prove that they can meet fixed goals or deadlines. You'll face fewer cut corners and better long-term results.
* Connect, don't conform: Flatten hierarchies in your organization and connect with your people to encourage them to contribute to decision-making.
In his last book, Turn the Ship Around!, Marquet told the incredible story of abandoning command-and-control leadership on his submarine and empowering his crew to turn the worst performing submarine to the best performer in the fleet. Now, with Leadership is Language he gives businesspeople the tools they need to achieve such transformational leadership in their organizations.
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A New Leadership PlaybookAs I developed my thinking around the language of leadership, I formulated responses for leaders in various situations at work. I started thinking about these preplanned and preprogrammed responses that we have patterns of action (and in our case, language) in response to, and triggered by, certain events or scenarios. Just like a sports play, you choose your play by reading the field and then making a deliberate decision about how to act. But I wasn t sure about that metaphor and was still struggling with the overall structure of the book.
While this was going on, I boarded United flight 1139, the redeye from San Francisco to Tampa. I was headed home. Just after I buckled in, a man sat down next to me with a large duffle bag that he pushed under the seat in front of him. He pulled out a three-inch, three-ring binder and I could see a couple others in the duffle. It was a playbook, a football playbook! I did not recognize him, but it was John Gruden, who had just signed a contract to be head coach of the Oakland Raiders (again). He had served as head coach from 1998 2001. These were the playbooks for the Oakland Raiders.
I asked him about the playbooks. He accommodated me and flipped open to the front of the binder. The plays had nothing to do with football. They were about how the players, coaches, and staff would act off the field, in the locker room, at team events, and at practice. It was only in volumes two and three that the traditional pass plays and running plays were portrayed.
When we started discussing the organization of the binders the first words out of his mouth were, Well, it s all about language. I took that as a sign from the heavens and settled on the playbook metaphor.
I think because of how I got there that when I say play, I often picture football because in that sport there is a break between each action. The field is reset and the offense has time to deliberately decide their next action:
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run, pass, or something else. So does the defense. And both sides are trying to read the other in determining their plan.
This pattern of executing plays or preplanned responses already exists in human behavior, business leadership, and language. The problem is that most of us are working with an outdated playbook: plays that we have been programmed to run from an older paradigm of leadership, the Industrial Revolution. In the early chapters of this book, I ll explain how we inherited our language of leadership from the industrial era and why it s so poorly suited to today s work environment.
Above all, the promise of this book is to reveal not only the new plays appropriate for today s challenges but also their underlying structure, the logic behind them, and how to use them with your team. Once you understand not only what to say but why and how, you will be able to find the right language for any situation. This will help establish a more effective working environment, leading to better outcomes across the board and a more satisfying and meaningful work experience for everyone in the organization.
Over the course of this book, I ll introduce you to six new leadership plays, contrasting each one with the old plays. I will also show how the new plays work together, revealing an underlying approach that oscillates between action and reflection, doing and deciding. They are, in order:
1. Control the clock, instead of obeying the clock
2. Collaborate, instead of coercing
3. Aim for commitment rather than compliance
4. Complete defined goals instead of continuing work indefinitely
5. Improve outcomes, rather than proving ability
6. Connect with your people, instead of conforming to your role
Each of these plays hinges on specific use of language, and I ll explain in detail how to execu
This pattern of executing plays or preplanned responses already exists in human behavior, business leadership, and language. The problem is that most of us are working with an outdated playbook: plays that we have been programmed to run from an older paradigm of leadership, the Industrial Revolution. In the early chapters of this book, I ll explain how we inherited our language of leadership from the industrial era and why it s so poorly suited to today s work environment.
Above all, the promise of this book is to reveal not only the new plays appropriate for today s challenges but also their underlying structure, the logic behind them, and how to use them with your team. Once you understand not only what to say but why and how, you will be able to find the right language for any situation. This will help establish a more effective working environment, leading to better outcomes across the board and a more satisfying and meaningful work experience for everyone in the organization.
Over the course of this book, I ll introduce you to six new leadership plays, contrasting each one with the old plays. I will also show how the new plays work together, revealing an underlying approach that oscillates between action and reflection, doing and deciding. They are, in order:
1. Control the clock, instead of obeying the clock
2. Collaborate, instead of coercing
3. Aim for commitment rather than compliance
4. Complete defined goals instead of continuing work indefinitely
5. Improve outcomes, rather than proving ability
6. Connect with your people, instead of conforming to your role
Each of these plays hinges on specific use of language, and I ll explain in detail how to execu
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Autoren-Porträt von L. David Marquet
L. David Marquet
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- Autor: L. David Marquet
- 2020, Internationale Ausgabe, 352 Seiten, Masse: 17,2 x 21,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Portfolio
- ISBN-10: 0525542884
- ISBN-13: 9780525542889
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.01.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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Early praise for Leadership is LanguageFull of compelling advice on how to lead more effectively by choosing your words more wisely.
--ADAM GRANT, author of Originals and Give and Take, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife
Leaders have to make difficult decisions every day under conditions of uncertainty. How can they get the best information and ideas from their people to help them decide? Leadership is Language is a refreshing, actionable framework that helps you navigate uncertainty and tackle thorny problems by bringing out the best in your people.
--ANNIE DUKE, author of Thinking in Bets
In Turn The Ship Around, Marquet challenged us to change the way we lead; Now, in Leadership is Language, he challenges us to change the way we talk as leaders dropping the archaic language of command and control and learning the language of creativity, collaboration, and commitment.
--LIZ WISEMAN, author of Multipliers
Another outstanding book from Marquet and a truly unique take on leadership that re-engineers our language. Anchored in how teams actually talk, Marquet shows leaders how to leave the Industrial Age language behind and use a different, more blue model going forward.
--VERNE HARNISH, founder of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) and author of Scaling Up
How do you motivate team and individuals to do their best, be their best? Marquet s latest illustrates the powerful intersection of communication and leadership, with simple steps to transform your
thinking, your influence, and the lives in your span of care.
--BOB CHAPMAN, CEO of Barry-Wehmiller and author of Everybody Matters
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