My Takeaways:
‘Are You Scaring Your People into Mediocrity?’
‘Fear pushes people to take action. Vision pulls people not only to take action but also to care about the outcome.’
‘One of the best ways to get and stay present is to focus on how you are increasing safety, belonging, mattering with your team.’
‘An emotionally engaging mission, vision, and values statement will help your team get connected to your company’s cause.’
‘Being truly clear means we need to take the time to discover what we need, to articulate it clearly, and to be sure the other party understood our communication.’
‘When accountability structures are used across a company, you’ll find people that perform at much higher levels. If a bar isn’t set, people don’t know how high they can jump.’
‘The more influential you become, the more you are putting yourself at the service of your team. Real influence is about empowering others.’
‘90% of our reactions are emotional, and our emotions respond four hundred times faster than our intellect.’
‘Sustainability is about energy management, or about finding out what drains us or puts us in conflict, and clearing it.’
‘Energy management must be intentional, conscious, and a key priority. The world is full of brilliant minds unable to fulfill their mission because they burned out first.’
‘Being problem-focused sucks our energy, leads us to look for ways to allocate blame, and feels constricting, like jacket that’s too tight.’
‘Being outcome-focused is empowering and energizing, and fills us with confidence. It firmly places you in your Smart State, where possibility, choice, innovation, love, and higher consciousness are abundant.’
‘Leaders have the ability to light up the pain or reward networks of their teams. Support and fairness are the best ways to help team members experience social rewards and stay in their Smart State.’
‘Behavior change is often transitory. If it is not supported by an identity change it doesn’t trickle in and other concerns will preempt the change.’
‘When you work solely at the environment, behavior, and capability levels, you are working on the symptoms. When you work on identity and belief, you are working on the system. This is true leadership.’
‘Companies can grow only as fast as their systems allow them to.’
‘A focused and present leader creates a focused and present culture. Clear communication in the leadership ranks drives clear communication at all levels of the company.’
‘Successfully and continuously adapting to market forces has to involve deep, engaging, and explicit work on core values.’
‘Chaos is an indication that you need to go back to basics. Start by reestablishing your mission, vision, and values, then line up your systems.’
‘Great people in the wrong roles is a symptom of Chaos Culture. Once you’ve got your systems lined up with your core values, do an audit and make sure the people you love also love their work.’
‘When we understand our universal need for safety, belonging, mattering, we understand quickly how letting people languish is asking for emotional disengagement and bad attitudes.’
Source
Christine Comaford (2013). Smart Tribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together
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