Speak Like a CEO: Secrets for Commanding Attention and Getting Results

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Leading Meetings

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“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

—DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, 34th U.S. President

BY THE TIME YOU become CEO, you will have led a lot of meetings. But as CEO, you set the meeting standard. Your meeting leadership style establishes the tone and influences the meeting culture. People take their cues from you, adopting your practices—good and bad.

Even when you are not leading the meeting, you influence it. Your presence changes the dynamic of the meeting simply because you are there. As one CEO told me, “The one individual who participates in every single meeting, and leads most of them, is the CEO.”

Businesses have to run meetings, ...