What's your leadership language? | Rosita Najmi

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In a globe-trotting career that has spanned corporations, governments, nonprofits and philanthropy, Rosita Najmi has often found herself translating among them. Instead of focusing on leadership style, she makes the case for becoming fluent in the languages of leadership, explaining how it can help you adapt to audiences across industries and collectively achieve your goals.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:13.2	If you've been in the working world,
0:14.8	you probably have an idea of your own leadership style
0:18.1	or the style of your bosses.
0:20.6	Global Development Economist Rosita Nageme says leadership style isn't all that useful.
0:27.0	In her 2023 talk from Ted Women, she explains why leadership language is key,
0:33.2	and what she means by being a multilingual leader.
0:36.8	After the break.
0:40.4	As an Iranian refugee who grew up in rural East Tennessee and someone who studied, lived and worked in over 30 countries,
0:49.0	I thought I knew how to navigate across cultures and languages. I was wrong. There I was
0:58.5	day one of business school getting my bearings and hearing an alien language.
1:04.2	It wasn't English, French, or my native Persian.
1:08.1	It was a bullia base of languages,
1:10.9	jargon from across the organizational multiverse,
1:15.0	the corporate world, the nonprofit sphere,
1:19.0	international development, and the public sector.
1:22.0	It was weird. In business school I thought I'd
1:27.4	learn about leadership styles. What I found were leadership languages.
1:33.4	And I learned that by becoming conversant
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