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The best leaders know how to communicate clearly and persuasively. How do you stack up?
If you read (or listen to) nothing else on communicating effectively, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you express your ideas with clarity and impact—no matter what the situation.
Leading experts such as Deborah Tannen, Jay Conger, and Nick Morgan provide the insights and advice you need to: pitch your brilliant idea—successfully; connect with your audience; establish credibility; inspire others to carry out your vision; adapt to stakeholders' decision-making style; frame goals around common interests; and build consensus and win support.
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About the Authors
Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, eleven internationally licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.
Robert Cialdini is a leading pioneer in the field of social influence. He is Regent’s Professor of psychology at Arizona State University and the president of Influence at Work, a consulting company that trains business people to incorporate the lessons of his research into their work. He gives approximately sixty lectures a year to premier business associations and leading corporations.
Nick Morgan, founder of Public Words Inc., is one of America’s top communication and speech coaches. He is a former fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he was affiliated with the school’s Center for Public Leadership. From 1998 to 2003, he served as editor of the Harvard Management Communication Letter. He is the author of the acclaimed book, Working the Room, reprinted in paperback as Give Your Speech, Change the World.
Deborah Tannen is the acclaimed
author of You Just Don’t Understand,
which was on the New York Times
bestseller list for nearly four years; the New
York Times bestseller on mother-daughter communication You’re Wearing THAT?; I Only
Say This Because I Love You; and many other books. A professor of
linguistics at Georgetown University, she appears frequently on national
television and radio. The youngest of three sisters, she lives with her husband
in the Washington, DC, area.
About Susan Larkin
Kevin Stillwell is an actor, voice talent, and Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. His film and television credits include Looper and Drop Dead Diva.