When the leader speaks, what is the team thinking? Think about your own mental talk track, what are you thinking about when someone of importance is speaking? When the boss stands in front of the team to lay out strategy or report results, the listeners process the information on.
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“I’ve sat through the same sales meeting since June 20th 1985.” When our client, the EVP of a large commercial bank, dropped this statement, it got me thinking. How many communication norms from 30 or 40 years ago are still in place today simply because no one recognized how.
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Do you make your decisions by design, or by default? Your life is the sum of your decisions. A business is created by the decisions the leaders make or don’t make. A family exists and operates because of decisions. One of the biggest challenges with decision-making, is not the.
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When they were only ten people, they didn’t give much thought to how they shared beliefs. They didn’t need to. It was obvious; their product was going to revolutionize the industry. They were on fire. They were going to change the way people did business. They talked about it.
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How long is 5 minutes? It depends. If you’re the one rushing to make a meeting, 5 minutes flies by. If you’re the one who showed up on time, and you’re waiting for someone else to arrive, 5 minutes is a really long time. Every organization has timeliness standards..
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“We don’t want to make things worse.” When my neighbor’s high school age daughter died of cancer, it was horrible. No one knew what to say or do. A group of us decided to take food over before the funeral, but everyone was afraid to be the person who.
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Every leader knows teamwork is essential. Yet after working with hundreds of organizations, I can confirm, much of the time and money spent on team building is a complete waste. Meaningless jargon, adjective-heavy iterations of strategy, and PowerPoint graphics detailing the organizations’ commitment to respect have little impact on.
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For years, I felt I had a devil one shoulder and an angel on the other. The devil whispers, “Make as much money as you can!” While on the other shoulder, the do-gooder persistent angel keeps reminding me, “You’re here to make a difference in the world.” I’m not.
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There’s a moment of suspended animation for any leader. It’s the time between when you’re called to leadership and when you actually assume the mantle of responsibility. It’s a crucial time, because people are deciding who you are and what you stand for before you even show up for.
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Have you ever seen Tinkerbell fly through the air at Disney? It’s magical, as she flies through the sky from the top of Cinderella’s castle, it appears effortless. But of course it’s not. Tinkerbell’s magical flight is the result of some genius cross-departmental tension. At Disney, two of their.
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