Why Great Leaders Speak Last

The best thing to do as a leader is first to clinch your ideas back until the end.

By thriving other leaders, you’re able to target higher-level initiatives.

It raises morale in your team.

It runs the company in the direction you want to go to.

Simon Sienk the Leadership expert has advice to aspiring great leaders-

Be a better listener by being the last one to speak your opinion during a meeting.

“The skill to hold your ideas to yourself until everyone has spoken does two things: One, it gives everybody else the perception that they have been heard. It gives everyone else the ability to sense that they have contributed,” he explained in a speech. “The second thing is, you get the aid of hearing what everybody else has to think before you deliver your idea.”

President of South Africa Nelson Mandela learned to speak last from watching Jongintaba, the tribal king who raised him. When Jongintaba held meetings, he would assemble his men in a circle and wait until they had spoken to speak himself.

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