Words
The Power That Builds, Breaks and Rebuilds Lives
Paperback · eBook
Why I Wrote This Book
Because most damage in homes, workplaces and public life is done not by policy, but by sentences spoken carelessly.
Words examines the everyday sentences that shape families, workplaces, congregations and nations — and argues that speaking well is not a decorative skill but a leadership responsibility.
Words is a sustained reflection on the most under-examined tool in human life: the sentence.
Master Chimbala traces how language forms identity long before it forms opinion — how a parent's phrase becomes a child's ceiling, how a manager's tone becomes an organisation's culture, and how public rhetoric becomes national temperature. He draws on broadcasting, training and public speaking to show why the same words land differently depending on timing, relationship and intent.
The book then turns constructive. It sets out how to speak truth without cruelty, disagree without contempt, correct without diminishing, encourage without flattery, and apologise in a way that actually repairs. Throughout, the argument is simple and demanding: if words carry this much weight, they deserve preparation.
- Leaders
- Managers
- Parents
- Teachers
- Church Leaders
- Broadcasters
- Public Servants
- Why language forms identity before it forms opinion
- How to speak difficult truth without causing unnecessary harm
- The difference between influence, manipulation and flattery
- How tone, timing and relationship change the meaning of the same words
- Practical repair language for conflict, correction and apology
- Publisher
- Dynamic Masterpiece
- Language
- English
- Publication Format
- Paperback · eBook
- Book Size
- A5
- Pages
- 196 Pages
- Reading Time
- 5 hours (approx.)
- Publication Status
- Published
A selected excerpt from this book will be published here soon.
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