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Comment on Wow! Adding value in a new role by Graig Urabe

Graig Urabe — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:29:31 +0000

The highest man understands precisely what is right; the inferior man understands what’s going to sell.
Perpetual optimism can be a force multiplier.

Comment on A scorecard for your Wellness initiative by admin

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:21:14 +0000

Thanks for visiting the blog, Giovanni. Sometimes what is not so clear now will become quite beneficial as it is applied. -Lori

Comment on A scorecard for your Wellness initiative by Giovanni Deschambeault

Giovanni Deschambeault — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:29:56 +0000

Just imagine I read it twice. While I am not as proficient on this subject, I harmonise with your determinations because they create sense. Gives Thanks and goodluck to you.

Comment on Leadership & Successful Risk-Taking - #1 of Series by admin

admin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:03:42 +0000

Congratulations! I’d love to hear more of your story. Truly very few people are willing to push that far in order to experience, as paraphrased from Kay Hendricks of “The Big Leap,” that wonderful thing that is trying to come out (of this pain). I’m happy to hear you have experienced it. You will bring great value to others (and I suspect you already do)!

Comment on Leadership & Successful Risk-Taking - #1 of Series by Joe WIlliams

Joe WIlliams — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:29:20 +0000

Right on, Lori!

For me, this year has been a direct experience in what you describe. In retrospect, the team and I needed to experience the “failure” of our initial strategic plan to set the seeds for the larger success that is coming. We had to do it. To attempt otherwise would have led to a much larger non-recoverable failure, of that I’m convinced. Funny, because at the start of this project I would have thought that failure is failure and is to be avoided at all costs. Now I know: not true!

Comment on Leadership -Connecting with (your) people to improve results. Step 4: Removing roadblocks by Randy Hall

Randy Hall — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:55:00 +0000

Lori,

Great job of getting people to think about the inputs rather than managing the business using the P&L. Balance sheets are the result of your work and you only change them by changing the work itself. Managing the business by looking at revenue is like trying to harvest what you never planted.

Good stuff,

Randy

Comment on Have you experienced times like these? Help others through it. by Lori Leavitt Evans

Lori Leavitt Evans — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:26:17 +0000

I’ve been watching your Twitter posts. You share… how do I describe it?… wholeness. I appreciate that my words fit with your mindset. -Lori

Comment on Wow! Trust as a retention strategy, protects your bottom-line by Lori Leavitt Evans

Lori Leavitt Evans — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:24:34 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful comment, Ethan. It is so natural for us to put all conversations only into our own perspective, blocking our ability to consider a different view. What you speak about is putting first a desire to understand. Excellent! You may enjoy the book “Difficult Conversations” by the Harvard Negotiations Team. They do an excellent job stressing the importance of feelings…even in workplace conversations. -Lori

Comment on Wow! Trust as a retention strategy, protects your bottom-line by Ethan Yarbrough

Ethan Yarbrough — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:22:30 +0000

Thanks for this thought-provoking post, Lori. “Take the time to dig deeper before making a critical decision about people”: so true, so wise, but so often forgotten. Your post reminded me of something I use to ground myself in dealing with people. It comes from a book I read a while back called “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” — not the greatest book, but it did have some sage advice I’ve carried with me. Lack of trust is one of the 5 dysfunctions as I recall. The author’s advice for those times when you’re dealing with someone difficult who seems to be consciously trying to complicate things for you is to afford them your MRI: Most Respectful Interpretation. Carry your MRI into the conversation with them; assume they don’t know the impact of what they’re doing, assume they are NOT consciously trying to undermine you, acknowledge they are a valuable person who just isn’t delivering constructively at the moment: the MRI is based on the fundamental trust you’re talking about.

Keep up the great thinking.

Comment on Have you experienced times like these? Help others through it. by Russell Cook

Russell Cook — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:23:02 +0000

Excellent post…thanks for sharing timely advice.