Jay Sullivan
Autore di Simply Said: Communicating Better at Work and Beyond
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Jay Sullivan is an award-winning author and the Managing Partner at ExeclComm, LLC. Whether coaching individuals one-on-one or working with groups, Jay helps professionals from global organizations have greater impact through communication. As a former attorney, Jay's column The Art of mostra altro Communication was regularly featured in the New York Low Journal. His articles and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, Reader's Digest, Parents Magazine, Catholic Digest, The Golfer, and Boston College Magazine. mostra meno
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In the first half of the book, Sullivan’s instruction on good writing and good speaking are fairly par for the course. He wisely reinforces that he merely provides ways to improve effectiveness, not rules to follow precisely. Most of his adages correspond with succinct communication styles that relate to the people around you. This style resembles advice in many popular books. He aims to get your focus off of you and on to your audience – that is, the people that you are leading.
This book’s first half is fairly standard, but the second half clearly outdoes the first. Sullivan’s focus narrows on management and leadership. The theme of getting the focus onto the people becomes stronger and more powerful. He reminds us that we lead people for the people’s benefit first, not our own. Thus, his expressed style resembles that of servant leadership. Obviously, most of us fall short of this ideal, but I appreciate being pushed in the right direction. I’d therefore suggest that this book’s strengths are less about how to communicate more succinctly at work and more about communicating more effectively as a leader.
Public life requires communication. Those who aspire to leadership roles often need some refinement before they grow their tribe of followers. It’s better to identify how to improve comfortably through reading than to learn through painful mistakes. This book aims to ease readers’ adaptations to this end. Modern life certainly needs less self-absorbed leaders and more who are interested in the common good. This book can help us all reach those noble aims more directly.… (altro)