When someone shares a thing they heard or saw, it’s not only that thing they are sharing. They are also sharing some of their expectations, emotions, opinions.
Keep that mind as you aim to getting to the bottom of it.
Tag: entrepreneurship
The greater good
Many use the greater good only when it matches their own good.
They want to avoid changing their ways.
They aim at pushing back a difficult conversation.
They prefer not to confront their own fault.
And so, they claim that it is for the good of the whole, that they cannot do otherwise, that it’s what makes the most sense.
It’s a cheap excuse to preserve their own comfort.
Easy or not
“That’s something we can very easily do.”
Perhaps it’s true, but the point is not whether something is easy or not. The point is what’s happening that’s keeping people from doing it.
Is it a lack of clarity on what matters?
Is it that you are overreaching and micromanaging?
Is it a lack of competence or confidence?
Is it poor resources?
Is it overwhelming expectations?
People are not inherently lazy or irresponsible, so if something easy is not getting done, ask yourself what you can correct in your own doing, before starting to look outside and push the target farther away.
Unfulfillment
There’s a time for praise and celebration, and there’s a time for requests, feedback, concern, criticism.
When the two get mixed, the enthusiasm quickly dies down and it just leaves a sense of unfulfillment and near-accomplishment.
Echo chamber
Nobody wants to hear what you have to say.
Everybody wants to share what they have to say.
It might be a bit of an exaggeration, but if you want to be a leader, that’s a distinction you need to have very clear. One that you need to be able to navigate.
If you don’t, you’ll find yourself in a very limiting echo chamber.
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