Leadership Communication from the President

clipped from blogs.harvardbusiness.org How to Communicate Like Barack Obama Challenge Question Cheerlead Be real Decide. Inspire Girding all of these styles is a rigorous sense of discipline. We rarely witness him going off-message; he is not shy about keeping things close to the vest, especially to the media. He and his aides stay on message, and that is one reason the Obama campaign succeeded. Obama has the verbal fluency to make his points crystal clear. His challenge, as it is for all leaders, is to ensure that his words serve as prompts for action rather than rhetorical flourishes. Or as they say, words are cheap; actions are what counts.

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