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The Power of Oratory in Modern Leadership
The Power of Oratory in Modern Leadership

Author(s): Petru Ionescu
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Communication studies, Cognitive Psychology, Management and complex organizations, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Oratory; Leadership; Persuasive communication; Motivation; Empathy; Public speaking; Efficiency; Rhetoric; Expressivity;

Summary/Abstract: Today, more than ever before, modern leadership calls for a greater interest in message composing and conveying from the perspective of persuasive communication. High performance requires varied, extensively elaborated capacities used with maximum impact at the proper moment. Now when the communication means are rather developed and varied and quite easily accessible by anybody, besides the other capacities a real leader should feature, oratory or the art of (public) speaking takes its place back and redefines its part in relation to these modern means of conveying messages precisely by recurring to the “human” essence of the communication relation. Amid the hundreds, thousands of electronic messages, face-to-face interaction fetches that bundle of feelings and emotions the bits and hertz still fail to convey.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 132-138
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English