by Dianna Booher

If you want to be more successful in life and ask people for advice, two pieces of advice will show up early and often:

  • Become a great communicator.
  • Become strategic or intentional.

This is amazingly sound advice. And when you are in a leadership role, the advice is doubly true. It is a fact: the best leaders are both strategic and good communicators. So, it follows that if you want to improve your skills, these are two areas to focus on.

Enter Dianna Booher.

In her long career, Dianna Booher has written extensively about communication in all forms, and trained, coached and worked with hundreds of leaders too. In her new book, she helps her readers work on these two important skills – strategy and communication.

This well written and practical book is laid out in sections which prove my point:

  • Strategic Leadership
  • Strategic Conversations
  • Strategic Negotiations
  • Strategic Speaking
  • Strategic Writing
  • Strategic Meetings

Each section is composed of 3-15 short chapters (the Strategic Leadership Section has the most chapters) which provide practical advice for leaders at all levels.

Since strategy and communication are so important to us all as leaders, whether new ideas or powerful reminders (likely both), this book belongs on your reading list – and since it is brand new – when you read it, you will be among the first to benefit from the wisdom it provides.

Special Note: I recently had Dianna as a guest on The Remarkable Leadership Podcast, and you can listen to that episode here. It will either reinforce your desire to read this book, or confirm the wisdom of your purchase. You can search for it on iTunes, or listen from here.

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Kevin Eikenberry is a recognized world expert on leadership development and learning and is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. He has spent over 30 years helping organizations across North America, and leaders from around the world, on leadership, learning, teams and teamwork, communication and more.

Twice he has been named by Inc.com as one of the Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts in the World and 100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Conference. The American Management Association named him a “Leaders to Watch” and he has been twice named as one of the World's Top 30 Leadership Professionals by Global Gurus. Top Sales World has named him a Top Sales & Marketing Influencer several times, and his blog has been named on many “best of” lists. LeadersHum has named him one of the 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership in 2023.

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