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Best Leaders Take Efforts to Communicate Well
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere — Lee Iacocca
I have yet to come across a real leader who is not a good communicator. Only a few of them stood out as the best leaders — and every one of them took extra efforts on their communication skills.
We come across many leaders because they have a title that makes them leaders, but are not leaders in the real sense. They lack communication skills.
At the same time, it is true that those without any title, who took initiative in improving their communication skills, got “lucky” to get the titles later in their careers. Whenever someone takes extra effort and becomes successful, people start thinking about how lucky they were to get the right opportunities.
The tea seller who became an extraordinary Prime Minister
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the third of six children born in a poor household in Vadnagar, a small town in the western Gujarat state in India.
Modi has often spoken about his humble origins, including how as a child he helped his father sell tea at a railway station. The tea stall where he used to sell…
