I listened to an audio summary of Stephen R. Covey’s “The Speed of Trust” today. There’s some good stuff in there.
This blurb drew my attention: “We (the speakers) judge by intent; they (the audience) judge by observable behavior. You need to declare your intent to actively influence the conclusions others draw about your behavior, or [...]
As a follow-up to the previous post on things that shouldn’t be said, there are also things that should be said.
I was a newlywed of less than a year when I had some great advice passed on to me from someone who quoted it as being passed to them from a wise sage many years [...]
Had a speaker I was working with the other day express shock that I recommended removal of an agenda slide from their PowerPoint. “Shouldn’t I tell them what I’m going to tell them, tell them, and tell them what I told them?“ That is one method. And not one I ascribe to very much. We [...]