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Executive Presence

The Missing Link Between Merit and Success

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Executive Presence

By: Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Narrated by: Rosalind Ashford
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Are you “leadership material?” More importantly, do others perceive you to be? Sylvia Ann Hewlett, a noted expert on workplace power and influence, shows you how to identify and embody the Executive Presence (EP) that you need to succeed.

You can have the experience and qualifications of a leader, but without executive presence, you won't advance. EP is an amalgam of qualities that true leaders exude, a presence that telegraphs you're in charge or deserve to be. Articulating those qualities isn't easy, however.

Based on a nationwide survey of college graduates working across a range of sectors and occupations, Sylvia Hewlett and the Center for Talent Innovation discovered that EP is a dynamic, cohesive mix of appearance, communication, and gravitas. While these elements are not equal, to have true EP, you must know how to use all of them to your advantage.

Filled with eye-opening insights, analysis, and practical advice for both men and women, mixed with illustrative examples from executives learning to use the EP, Executive Presence will help you make the leap from working like an executive to feeling like an executive.

 Career Success Etiquette Leadership Management & Leadership Workplace & Organisational Behaviour Workplace Culture Business Career
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There are certainly useful takeaways on attributes that contribute to executive presences including communication and appearances via relatable examples and good business case studies. But i find it hard to continue listening when the author brings up diversity in every few examples, such as noting the ethnicity of a given leader. The same is true for focusing female empowerment. While not necessarily bad, over emphasis on feels forced, and difficult for me to buy in those stories without feeling im being lectured on an underlying agenda.

Good points, but over emphasises female empowerment and diversity.

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This audio book has some useful insights fit anyone seeking to self-assess and improve their executive presence. As well as general advice and insights, chapters covering the specific challenges faced by women and minorities will be very useful for those cohorts.

Some good tips/info

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If you want to understand the intangible, nuanced elements to take you to the next level in your career - this a great book to listen to. Narrated with great precision, feeling, empathy and a dash of humour, it is well worth the investment and should leave you inspired with a list of practical changes you can make to how you turn up for work each day. Highly recommended.

Pragmatic and engaging

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