Harvard Business Review on Communicating Effectively  (English, Paperback, Review Harvard Business)

Communicating Effectively, a 2011 book published by the Harvard Business Review Press, is a compilation of handpicked HBR articles that highlight the best practises, time-saving strategies, and ideas for effective communication.

Summary Of The Book

Communicating Effectively was published in 2011 by the Harvard Business Review, and offers some of the best articles on communication written by experts, and published in numerous issues of HBR magazine, all in one place.

The content of HBR’s Communicating Effectively is presented through ten articles, all well articulated and brilliantly put together by their individual authors, many of which are established communication or leadership experts around the country. These related articles on communication styles, was published as one of the volumes of the series of anthologies of articles seen in the initial HBR editions.
A useful and inspiring book on communication, Communicating Effectively talks about strategies that can substantially improve communication and help build effectiveness in our communication with others. The book touches upon the many components of the communication process essential for it to be effective including various communication styles.

The book offers valuable insights and tips from experts on a range of topics vital to the communication process including how to sound credible to the audience, adapt to their style of decision-making, frame goals that involve common interests, how to diffuse a potentially stressful conversation, get others interested in your perspective through an effective pitch, and finally, how to win over people onto your side and inspire them to go along with your vision.

The book includes bestselling articles such as The Necessary Art Of Persuasion by Jay A. Conger, How To Pitch A Brilliant Idea by Kimberly D. Elsbach, Change The Way You Persuade by Gary A. Williams and Robert B. Miller, Taking The Stress Out Of Stressful Conversations by Holly Weeks, Harnessing The Science Of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why by Deborah Tannen, and The Five Messages Leaders Must Manage by John Hamm.

Briefly describing a couple of key articles, for e.g., in Change The Way You Persuade, the authors have used their extensive research and interviews conducted, to categorise individuals into five distinct decision making styles, namely, Thinkers, Followers, Charismatic, Controllers, and Skeptics, and have further gone on to explain the ways found to be best suited for influencing them.

In Harnessing The Science Of Persuasion, the author stresses on the importance of persuasion as an essential component of effective leadership, and lays out reliable and time tested methods in order to influence your audience and get people to support your ideas and viewpoints.