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The Fluent Leader
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The Fluent Leader

by Valerie Fawcett
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
5h 36m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 1 Leadership, Fluency, and Where to Invest It

Stefan F. Graebe

DOI: 10.4324/9781003345527-1

“Functional what?” – a preamble

By the time I first came into contact with “Functional Fluency”, I had been in executive leadership positions and associated training for over a decade. On being invited for an introductory training session, this is what caught me off-guard:

  • How powerful it is, whilst being intuitively accessible
  • How generally applicable it is

But what stunned me was simply:

  • I had never heard of it!

“Functional what?” was my first thought.

Yet, only a few hours later I wished I had known about it throughout my career. I had been in positions ranging from technical geek expert, to project leader, head of department, chief ...

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