Speak Last, Speak Little, Speak Well by Mark J Kingsfield
The power of effective communication is clear. No matter how refined, insightful, or world-beating your thoughts and ideas are, if you are unable to articulate them effectively, they have limited use.
We all have good ideas, and all want to get them out there. This is entirely the problem. Everyone is speaking or communicating all the time — it is hard to find your voice.
This is, even more, the case in the workplace, as colleagues and co-workers jostle for position. Ruthless ambition often driving a cut-throat environment. In a world of competition where you are your own brand, what you say and how you say it matters.
This is a story about a man who said few words, but with disproportionate effect.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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