In the early days of the pandemic, you started sending out a weekly email blast that you sent to everybody in our community here at the GSB. It offered support and assurance. And I personally found these messages comforting, informative, and encouraging In a time when encouragement was definitely needed. How do you step forward and put forth your position, but also leave space for people to discuss or debate? That's a hard tension.
As the dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dean Jon Levin knows the importance of crafting the right message and sharing it in the right way. But, as he says, one of the biggest challenges for any leader is to know what to communicate, and how.
How do leaders strike the balance between being clear and directive, and as Levin says, “leaving space for people to form their own opinions, to discuss ideas, to debate”? He joins host and lecturer of strategic communications Matt Abrahams to discuss on this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart.
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