Perhaps no other communication skill is more important for a leader than understanding now to listen. Listening is so much more than not talking. You can be perfectly quiet and not be listening.
Dietrick Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was opposed to Hitler’s genocide of the Jews, and ran “underground seminaries” during the war. In 1943 he was imprisoned by the Gestapo. Bonhoeffer was executed in the spring of 1945.