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Communication Strategies for Today's Managerial Leader
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Communication Strategies for Today's Managerial Leader

by Deborah Britt Roebuck
January 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
394 pages
8h 53m
English
Business Expert Press
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Chapter 3

Understanding How to Communicate in Day-to-Day Situations

Each day when you arrive at work, you face multiple challenges and priorities such as returning phone calls, responding to e-mails, completing reports, and managing budgets. These tasks can overwhelm you. Sometimes you have to stop and remind yourself that the most important, and often most difficult, job is to communicate with both internal and external customers. Thomas Watson, president of IBM from 1914 to 1956, never allowed IBM to replace people as his number-one focus. The story is told that during one meeting, managers were reviewing customer problems with Mr. Watson. On the table were eight to ten piles of papers identifying the sources of problems: manufacturing, engineering, ...

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ISBN: 9781606491997