The Leader's Edge: How to Use Communication to Grow Your Business and Yourself » (REPRINT)

In The Leader's Edge, Sandy Linver, the well-known consultant and president of Speakeasy Inc., shows how her clients -- from top-notch companies such as Coca-Cola, Andersen Consulting, and UPS -- have used effective communication skills to reach their high leadership positions. In this book, you'll meet chairmen, presidents of companies, and heads of divisions from different industries with one thing in common: They're all committed to communicating well and becoming the best speakers they can be. At one point or another, in each of their careers, these people discovered something very important: Effective communication doesn't come from a rule book or a toolbox, but from within.

The Leader's Edge isn't a "how to" book -- it's a "where to" book, about where communication development can take you, professionally and personally. Once you are in touch with who you are and what you want, Linver tells us, you, too, will discover how easy it is to communicate persuasively, and how these skills can help you grow in your career and in your life.

Library Journal

Opinion polls reveal that people would rather die than speak in public, but the only way to learn to speak in public is to speak in public. It's hard work, takes constant practice, and reading about it is merely a start. Linver, an experienced teacher of public speaking, now follows her prior ``how-tos'' on this subject (Speak and Get Results, Summit, 1983) with a book expressing her beliefs and values about effective communication. She describes the use of the ``mirror,'' the ``magic wand,'' and the ``journey'' in this principle-based approach. Busy executives, her target audience, will find her earlier task-specific works more pragmatic and useful than this one. Her views on leadership are paltry compared with the vast amount of information in this genre that already fills the shelves. Buy only on demand.-Dale Farris, Groves, Tex.