Most people don’t ask for feedback in order to avoid potential unpleasantness of negative comments. Although understandable, it is hardly a beneficial strategy. Even if it’s bad news, the sooner you know, the sooner you can do something about it.
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Telling people how their behaviour makes you feel is a non-threatening way of bringing up the issues that bother you. You might sometimes get some form of abuse in response, in which case more decisive measures will need to be taken, but more often than not it’ll result in changed behaviour and a better relationship.
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If you make it about WHO’s right, there will be winners and losers. If you make it about WHAT’s right, everyone’s a winner.
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Take all the blame, pass on all the praise. Never hide behind your employees, never throw them under the bus. Do that and earn your people’s respect and support, even when you have to make unpopular decisions.
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Where am I wrong?
We don’t like to think that we are ever wrong about anything but logic tells us that it is a statistical inevitability that we must be wrong some time, in some things.
Actually, if we managed to go behind our ego’s back and take an objective look at ourselves, we’d realize that we’re wrong far more often than we think. Continue Reading →
Are you procrastinating? Is there something you keep putting off, burying under less important tasks?
There are two kinds of procrastination: good and bad. That’s right, there is such a thing as good procrastination.
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Are you in a rut? Is your life boring? Or are you, perhaps, comfortable?
Beware of comfort – it is a killer of ambition and a killer of achievement. As soon as you get comfortable, you stop growing, stop moving forward and begin stagnating.
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Know Thyself, admonished the ancient Greeks, failing, however to provide instructions on how to do it.
Of course they meant the inner self, the true self, the one that’s hiding underneath all the masks, beliefs and neuroses that we call our personality.
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What may distract you today and how will you deal with it?
Certain things are bound to happen – phone calls, emails, people dropping by, etc.
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