If you are striving for effective and efficient communication you should first bid farewell to conventional wisdom as expressed in the following saying: speech is silver but silence is golden. Even if that is occasionally true, it is a rare guru who achieves a long-lasting impact with silence. If you bring yourself to speak, however, beware: if you speak then you must make sure that your speech is better than your silence would have been.

The themes on strong speech:

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