December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 1m
English
Content preview from Leading Through Language
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Index
- abbreviations, avoiding unnecessary
- acronyms
- add-ons, unnecessary
- adverbs that are useless
- alliteration
- Alonzo, Emily
- anaphora
- Anderson, Chris
- antithesis
- Apple
- Aristotle, rhetoric
- Armstrong, Tim
- aspirational words
- assumption-based jargon
- audience-centric language
- authentic language
- “baffling noun cluster”
- Barry, Michael
- Baumeister, Roy
- Becoming a Critical Thinker (Carroll)
- “better-version” jargon
- Big Data
- bluntness, avoiding
- Boomerang (Lewis)
- Branson, Richard
- brevity
- Buffett, Warren
- business jargon, vote to find the worst
- buzzwords
- call to action
- Carroll, Lewis
- Carroll, Robert Todd
- casual words, avoiding
- Cheadle, Don, (Marty Khan) in House of Lies
- Churchill, Sir Winston
- clarity, jargon lacking
- clichés
- Cole, Gary
- collective use of jargon
- Collins, Jim
- colloquial expressions, avoiding
- commitment
- to taking action
- to using the language of leadership
- to your position
- concise language
- confident language
- conflict
- avoidance of
- strategies
- confusing jargon
- contrasting ideas
- convergence
- convictions, defining own
- courageous leaders
- Coutu, Diane
- Dakens, Les
- Davey, Liane
- definition of a leader/leadership
- Derraugh, Bruce
- Dimon, Jamie
- direct language
- doctor-patient language
- Downe, Bill
- efficiency of jargon
- Elbers, Jorina
- emotions
- empathic words
- evasive jargon
- everyday process of leadership
- Executive Presence (Hewlett)
- Fallon, Chuck
- Fell, Martha
- figures of speech
- alliteration
- anaphora
- antithesis
- hyperbole
- metaphor
- filler words, avoidance of
- formal acronyms ...
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