Good communication and effective leadership are two traits that can influence the growth and success of businesses and organizations. A company with excellent communicators can be the driving force of the business. These skills are important in management roles as well as non-managerial roles because both managers and non-managers interact with people outside the company. All employees are a representation of the company they work for. George Bernard Shaw said, “The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has happened” (Shaw). It is imperative that leaders and inspirational leaders demonstrate good communication skills rather than assuming they have good communication skills. The purpose of this article is to inform readers that business experts can fail without effective leadership and communication skills; however, leadership and communication skills can be natural or learned. In September 2011, Hewlett Packard CEO Leo Apotheker was fired and replaced less than a year after he was hired. The company's rapid and involuntary separation came as a shock to many people. Apotheker was an experienced business executive with a wealth of knowledge. Hewlett Packard President Ray Lane said, “Apotheker's problem was not so much a lack of vision as a lack of execution and communication” (Goldman, 2011). The lack of communication caused Apotheker to lose what could have turned into a successful career at Hewlett Packard. The same month that Apotheker parted ways with the company, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman replaced Apotheker. Both Whitman and Apotheker have the expertise that every CEO should have, and both are very successful business leaders. However, there was a...... middle of paper ......e who was giving presentations in class. Moses was a follower of God who also doubted his communication skills. Exodus 4:10-12 illustrates God informing Moses that He would direct his tongue and provide him with the words to speak. It reads: “But Moses said to the LORD, Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither in the past, nor since you spoke to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue. Then the LORD said to him, Who made the mouth of man? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Am I not the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say. (ESV). We are on a mission for God. We must be disciples and work for the glory of God. Effective leadership and communication can help us achieve our goal of glorifying God in all aspects of life: in the classroom, in the mission fields, and even in the workplace..