Tag: change

For you and for me

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What’s in it for me?

That’s on our mind when we approach something, whether consciously or unconsciously. We have some idea of what we will get from a situation, from a person, from a request. We play scenarios in our head and expect to maximise the value we can get.

Of course, everybody does that at the same time, and so focusing on what you could get is probably not going to take you very far.

Challenge yourself and start with: Here is what’s in it for you.

Once that becomes the default, you will find you can change the world.

Nuisance to invaluable

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When you create problems, even if you do that without intention, even if you do that to try to improve some other things, and leave your peers to deal with the consequences, you are a nuisance.

When you create problems, particularly if you do that without intention, particularly if you do that to try to improve some other things, and help your peers to find a solution, you are a resource.

When you solve problems, with intention, in the attempt of making things better, and you bring your peers along the journey, you become invaluable.

Silos

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If your organisation has a problem with silos – that is to say, you are dealing with departments caring mainly about their internal processes and KPIs, blaming poor results on others, not aligning around what success looks like -, the best way to break down the silos is to start a project that needs the input and commitment of people that come from the different silos.

Make them know each other, come up with ideas and execute in the same space, define success and celebrate together.

It will teach them empathy for other functions and it will allow them to take that empathy back to their respective teams.

Long-term investment

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Building good relationships requires that you are in a good relationship with yourself. At the same time, when you are in a good relationship with yourself, it’s often the case that you lose the opportunity to build good relationships.

Use your own inner strength to put strong foundations below the relationships with your partner, with your friends, with your colleagues, with your community.

It’s a long-term investment in well-being.

More and more and more

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It’s difficult to let people go where they want to go. It’s difficult in life and at work.

It’s difficult because since we were kids we have been told not to go there, not to do this, to just come here. It’s difficult because we see people going their own way as a threat to our own pursue and to our own self. It’s difficult because it is easy to look from the outside and recommend the absolute and perfect course of action. It’s difficult because we have been shown that limiting the possibilities is a way to protect, to shield, to even show we actually care.

It’s difficult. And we need to commit to doing it more and more and more.