Leaders: Do You Know How To Listen?

Active listening helps managers and leaders uncover blind spots, challenge thinking and make better decisions.

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I was raised in the suburbs of New York City, a region infamous for talking, not listening. To call it talking is perhaps misleading. Where I came from, the voice that was loudest and could speak the longest won — like a filibuster, because minds were rarely changed. In the words of Wharton…