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Quiet Leadership
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Quiet Leadership

by David Rock
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
292 pages
5h 48m
English
HarperCollins Publishers
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STEP 1

THINK ABOUT THINKING

One cannot teach a man anything. One can only enable him to learn from within himself.

GALILEO GALILEI (1564–1642)

Figure 5, Think About Thinking

The first step to being a Quiet Leader is to think about people’s thinking. In other words, to become passionate about improving not what people are thinking about, but the way they think.

There are five elements to this step. The first element is to let the other person think through their own issue, rather than telling them what to do. This is the underlying and most important principle in the whole book: without this approach, nothing that comes after it will help. ...

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