A short YouTube video transcript featuring Chad Silverstein in conversation about the power of writing for leaders. The speakers discuss how leaders use journals and writing to gain clarity for decision-making, how to communicate with appropriate timing and restraint, and the tension between saying too much versus too little when conveying difficult information.
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This is a great day and a good example of the power of writing and why writing.
Has such an influence.
On leaders and why all great leaders have journals full of their writing. And you get clarity. We've talked about it so many times throughout the journey and yeah, when you're making decisions and you have to.
Do.
Things that are going to again, ripple through your company or through people's lives and being able to get clarity on that and.
Communicate like a strong leader.
Would do, and not saying things too prematurely, not creating.
Fear, instilling fear for.
The sake of scaring people and painting a worst case scenario and just giving people what they need, how much they need of it, and then figure out the timing on that. So sounds easy, but it's not.
And that's.
The hard gig about being a leader, is knowing how much to.
Say, and.
I know Chet would say just say less than you were going to say. And the timing on that and not being too premature and not being late and finding that healthy.
Balance which someone's.
Always going to still have a problem with.
But again, if you have a good.
Why and you know why you're doing it and there's a reason for it, you know, you don't have to explain that to everybody and you shouldn't feel like you have to.
You just have.
To accept the fact that a lot of people aren't going.