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Three benefits for being willing to take one for your team

self sacrifice — things are not always as they appear (where was this photo taken?)

Three benefits for being willing to take one for your team:

you are reminded of humility’s power
you become weak, which makes you stronger
you push yourself through pain and embarrassment – to victory

Hat tip to Nuwanda who took one for her team last week. Courageous. Inspiring.

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Sage wisdom from our parents applies tirelessly to business leadership

leadership basics — From the outside people believe the inside is world class too – Nuwanda knows better

Sage wisdom from our parents applies tirelessly to business leadership. Never get bored with the basics.

If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Therefore, Nuwanda will remain silent about the recent training she received.

Pity.

What’s sad, no one asked her about it.

Summary: A world class organization with a long-term employee undergoing new product training. Had the trainee been asked, she would have graded the so called world class training team an “EF”, for epic failure.

Sometimes what happens on the inside is tragic, not magic.

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Boasting world class means what when looking at the big picture?

in the hundreds of visits to Apple stores, jeff noel never thought the floors were remarkable

world class consistency — Apple employee said Apple has three quarries so every floor in every store is the same

Nuwanda attended a meeting in which a person got very serious and direct about being “world class”. Condescending in tone, actually. As if they had a clue about actually, personally being world class.

And yet this condescending person, by any measurable standard, is completely not world class.

Who among us is qualified to talk about “world class” performance anyway? Someone who’s read a lot of books?

You’re kidding, right?

And what stops us from applying world class to everything, not only what we have a passion for?

“Think about that”, Nuwanda said…

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Social media relationships build more slowly when posts are short and pithy

common sense insight tells us, distracted driving, of any sort, is ridiculously unsafe

Social media relationships build more slowly when posts are short and pithy. It’s challenging to make what works in person, work online:

The most important time to bond with a new baby is the first few months. The best time to bond with a new employee is the first few months. Funny how a little common sense can make a big difference. – Lee Cockerell

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Common sense Insight: The really important things in life are ridiculous obvious.