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LISTEN!

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Listening underlies all leadership skills. and is the key to developing and maintaining relationships, decision making and problem solving.  All of us like talking and interrupting while somebody else is talking, It’s in our nature, we should admit that we have listening problems. Often, we plan what we are going to say instead of listening. Unfortunately, communication doesn’t take place.

Mike Myatt argues in his post that great leaders are great listeners. Wisdom is gained not by talking, but by listening, so a leader should talk less and listen more. However, people are in a rush to speak out their thoughts and dont realize the value of meeting new minds. Mike Myatt also says that the smartest person in a meeting is the one who does all the listening ans asks questions to get more information, not talking whole the time. 

 

Effective leaders listen what others have to say, empathize with their points of view and recognize people have a need to be listened. A Turkish proverb summarizes my post excellent: "If speaking is silver, then listening is gold."

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