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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Okay, so let me hit you with something straight, something that might sting a little, okay?

But it needs to be said.

The number one complaint that I have about people, okay? But it needs to be said. The number one complaint

that I have about people, and I've always had about employees, and that I hear from my clients

about their employees, is they can't communicate. They can't speak clearly, confidently,

and persuasively. Period. Full stop. End of story. And here's the brutal truth. That complaint

has complete validity. Generally speaking, people have no idea how to communicate effectively and

efficiently and compellingly. And it's costing them everything. Let me tell you about Leanne.

Leanne is a brilliant marketing

director with incredible ideas, but every time she presents to the executive team, her proposals died. Why?

Not because her ideas were bad, but because she couldn't articulate them clearly. She'd ramble for

20 minutes, jump between topics, and leave everybody confused about what she was

actually proposing. Meanwhile, her colleague, Thomas, with half her talent, but Crystal Claire

communication got promotion after promotion after promotion. Why? Because Thomas could say in two

minutes, what took Leanne 20 and still left people guessing. Or think about this.

A recent study showed that the average knowledge worker spends two and a half hours every day

clarifying miscommunications. That's 625 hours a year, nearly 16 work weeks wasted because people can't communicate clearly.

Think about it, how much time gets wasted in your organization, in your marriage, in your friendships,

because of poor communication.

I was advising a CEO recently who told me about a $2 million deal that fell apart because his sales

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