Nuggets of Wisdom
The following are practical behaviors from "The Living Organization—Spirituality in the Workplace" that you might incorporate into your work life, where appropriate:
- Demonstrate more confidence in others.
- Allow others to create (and follow) their own solutions even when you suspect they are wrong.
- Express your support of their decisions and actions.
- Require less approval before taking action.
- Don't question the motives of others.
- Don't ignore the input of other people.
- Have patience with others.
- Give others time to come up with their own solutions.
- Don't interrupt or finish other people's sentences for them.
- Withhold making premature judgements on the abilities and commitments of others.
- Creating turmoil might win the battle, but lose the war.
- Deal with everybody on a peer-to-peer level at all times.
- Don't inject emotionally charged language into a situtation.
- Rely on intuition and reason, rather than intimidation, to sway others.
- You will have ultimate control out of a total absence of control.
- Describe rather than prescribe.
- Let others establish the agenda, constraints and timetables for work affecting them.
- Illuminate visions.
- Identify interrelationships between actions and consequences and let others decide on actions to take.
- You can't create closeness with intimidation.
- Set aside rank in dealing with subordinates.
- Listen to others holding different views.
- Don't flaunt degrees and credentials.
- Support the self-esteem of others by expressing confidence in their abilities and applauding their efforts.
- Treat every interaction as if it were crucial to success.
- Place an imaginary video camera in the room.
- Treat every individual like you would treat the president of the company.
- Stay plugged into every conversation, no matter how minor.
- Assume every case is that one of ten cases when you're wrong.
- Admit the possibility of being wrong.
- Actively solicit alternative ideas.
- Really listen to other suggestions and find a way to try them out.
- Positive results must always include the impact on people.
- Stay in tune with how your behavior is affecting others.
- Consider how you would feel if placed in the other person's shoes.
- Think of how you will view this episode when you are 90 years old.
- Value other people's views and suggestions.
- Worth and value are inherent and independent of achievements.
- Frequently step back and take the view from 10,000 light years away.
- Remember your oneness with all other entities within the universe.
- Quit keeping score.
|
