Lions Don’t Need to Roar: Using the Leadership Power of Personal Presence to Stand Out, Fit in and Move Ahead
Whether interviewing for the job of your dreams or dreaming about scaling the heights in your field, you’ll find that professional success requires more than capability alone: it requires professional presence. Now, D. A. Benton, the woman who made self-presentation an art–and a highly successful business–shares her knowledge with you. Using guidelines and techniques previously available only in her seminars, she reveals the secrets of making the right impression. This book also features quotes and advice from scores of top business leaders, from the president of Equitable Life to the editor of the Wall Street Journal. It shows you the important interpersonal attitudes and skills top executives share. And best of all, it teaches you how to use your own “guts” and “smarts” to capitalize on luck breaks, move ahead, and take charge once you’ve arrived!
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Review by C. Clayton for Lions Don’t Need to Roar: Using the Leadership Power of Personal Presence to Stand Out, Fit in and Move Ahead
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Debra Benton does a good job of bringing a common sense practical approach to leadership. This book is good for women as well as men. We can work together better if we are willing to accept others as they are and strive for mutually beneficial relationships. As Benton writes:
“When you respect others, accept them as they are, choose not to judge them, and generally view them in a favorable light, you benefit as much as they do. You appear nonjudgmental and people will feel more at ease with you. More people will do business with you because you are more likeable.”
There are many good topics such as: Use your head to express and impress, Speech and silence–how to use both for business success, fit in to get ahead–through story telling and life at the top.
Some of the topics such as Making an entrance–the pause that impresses can be considered posturing. Sometimes it is necessary, sometimes not. What is worthwhile is reading the impressions of someone who has been high up in corporate America. Each of us can then choose what we do in various situations.
Well written common sense information spiced with non-intuitive knowledge makes this book a very good read. Recommended!
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