Clear Leadership: How Outstanding Leaders Make Themselves Understood, Cut through the Mush, and Help Everyone Get Real at Work by Gervase R. Bushe (Professor of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)
Combating what the author calls interpersonal mush - a dysfunction that stifles learning, hampers collaborative teamwork and closes down honest communication - this text details the skills that make partnership and leadership possible: self-awareness, descriptiveness, curiosity and appreciation. Using stories, exercises and dialogues, Bushe identifies the barriers to truth-telling and how to overcome them, and shows how to become more skilled at turning interpersonal clarity into action.