Quiet Leadership

Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work

By: David Rock

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between their ears. "If people are being paid to think," he writes, "isn't it time the business world found out what the thing doing the work, the brain, is all about?" Supported by the latest groundbreaking research, Quiet Leadership provides a brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues' performance. Rock offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction.

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2006 David Rock (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers

revolutionary

Accomplish more by speaking less. Which questions will switch on the speaker's own capacity to understand and find a practical solution? By asking about their thinking you help them get out of the harried victim mode into a more transcendent clarity vision.

It is quite involved and entails getting used to a special terminology. Applying it in life is even more challenging, because you will sound very much differently from what you usually are. But even a little application of David Rock's 6 steps seems to help me approach all relationships and human interactions in a much more effective way. It shows how to actually contribute to positive and natural solutions.

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Good and useful, but repetitive. It could be shorter with the same ideas in it.

Some good nuggets

Some applicable stuff, other ideas felt forced. Odd without the graphical activities to try out because of audio format only.

Slow and repetitive

This book got off to a super slow start and never picked up the pace. I truly struggled to finish it. Very repetitive.

very useful for home and work

In any discussion, the knowledge and exercises in this book we'll help in solution finding.

Additional files

Couldn't find the work filed on line. Not sure where I can get them, thank you for the good job

One of the best leadership books I have read

I just finished this book for the second time in four years. I recommend it to the managers who work for me and recommend it to anyone who is responsible for managing a team or managing other managers.

How to motivate already awesome employees

David Rock has some good insight on how to "motivate" people. This book explains how to help great employees improve on their thinking, not how to help a manager deal with a difficult situation or bad employees. It's interesting but not what I was looking for. Asking questions rather than telling people what to do sounds likea good strategy if you feel comfortable with that employee and can rely on good responses. In my experience, once the situation has reached critical point, the employee will be defensive without you even asking the first question for permission or placement. They're just too stubborn, closed off, and entitled to see your good intentions. I believe this is where the book fails. But if you just want ideas on motivation, to help bring out more talent out of already talented people, assuming you're a great motivational speaker and you remember all the steps discussed in this book, assuming your conversation will not get offtrack or spiral into meaningless tangents, then it's great. But life is rarely this predictable.

Completely awesome!

This book is essential for any change agent to follow when transforming organizations for the better and interacting with people who need to be coached appropriately. As an Agile Coach I do recommend this reading!

Fun and informative. great examples.

good examples. great infornation. word choice could be better. overall good read. recommended read.