Own Your Words to Gain Authority
Managers lose credibility when they passively relay messages from their hierarchy—a posture the author describes as “managerial ventriloquism”. It is preferable to take ownership of these messages yourself, using your own words.
Author(s): David Hollis, Alex Wright
Publisher: MIT Sloan Management Review
Date of publication: 2024
Synopsis
This article is one of the sources used in Manageris’ synopses:
The unsuspected power of words
Although we often wield words without really paying attention to them, we can also deploy them in a more deliberate manner. How can we lean on recent advances in the field of linguistics to use the keywords that have the ability to open doors?
332a – Synopsis (8 p.)
Communication