Here are some thoughts from my morning walk the other day. The focus is on what I have learned from my experiences. It also includes some things I have observed. Always interested in your feedback and thoughts.
- Listen more, talk less
- Speak to inform, not command
- Be willing to say ?I was wrong?
- Don?t confuse the message with the messenger
- If you are going to do something, do it to the best of your ability, make it yours, OWN IT!
- If someone says we don?t do it that way here, then go somewhere else
- If you are the smartest person in the room, find another room
- What you don?t say is as important and what you do say. There is power in silence.
- Just because you tried it before, and it didn?t work doesn?t mean it won?t work now. Situations, circumstances and people change.
- If the last word summarizes the conversation then getting in the last word is acceptable, if not shut up!