Akeel JabberInvestment Director, Horizen Capital · Investor, Entrepreneur and Petroleum Engineer

Listening is the real leadership superpower

9 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief presentation, the speaker argues that effective leadership hinges on listening far more than speaking. Leaders should actively absorb others' viewpoints, showing respect and making people feel heard, even if they don't agree with every opinion. After gathering input, leaders must make decisions and transparently explain the reasoning behind them, so team members understand the "why" behind the direction taken. The overall message is that listening builds trust and decision‑making clarity, which are essential leadership superpowers.

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You have to listen way more as a leader than you speak. You have to take it in. You have to listen to people. You have to be very accepting of additional, of other points of views or additional points of view of how it is. Take it all in. And not that you need to agree with everybody, but people want to be heard. It's a, it's a, you know, respect thing to other people. They want to feel they're contributing. Take it all in and then make your decisions, but then explain why you make your decisions. decisions, not just, we're gonna do this, we're gonna do this, but let me explain to you my reasoning behind. Because you want, as a leader, people need to understand the why. They need to understand why we're going in this direction rather than just do it.