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.

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.

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.

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

Nothing new.

It is a good book but un my opinión it Needs more content about the conc

A Must Read for Anyone in Leadership

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I could not put this book down! It has some profound insights that will greatly help me in dealing with my employees and kids. You have to read it if you are in leadership or are aspiring to.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Quiet Leadership?

The analysis of the how people think

What does Pete Larkin bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Great audio effects that captivate you.

Very interesting!

I read the author's Brain at Work book and was impressed so I read Quiet Leadership and was equally impressed. Some of his suggestions I was already aware of. However, what impressed me is that he set up a process that is easy to follow; enough anecdotes and examples to see how it works for individuals and teams. I recommend both books.