Daniel Pink’s Post

Teamwork reimagined. Start asking yourself what causes you to be irritated with team members. Then find where YOU may not be aligned with the TRUTH. Suddenly the right questions may start showing up for you and the team. Curiosity is a key part of leading teams to greatness!

I couldn’t have said this better myself. I often say to clients that, in coaching, I’m listening as much to what isn’t being said as to what’s being said. And it makes all the difference. Have you experienced coaching where what isn’t being said was brought into your awareness? What impact did it have on you? #coaching #listening

Excellent word on successful communication.

I love Dan Pink (and Churchill quotes), but this is nonsense that we need to address. Even Facebook has ditched "fail fast". ❌Failure on its own is wasteful and destroys value. Serial failure (and celebrating it) is a version of Einstein's definition of insanity. ❌Experimentation (learning) from "failure" is the scientific method, however, testing low quality hypotheses is also wasteful. ✅Learning from setbacks in pursuit of quality hypotheses and the will to persevere despite those setbacks is vital to success. The contrast should be painfully clear and yet we continue to try and celebrate failure as if failure alone will do anything other than provide the least likely path to success. Failure is not progress towards anything. Intentional Learning (new insights) is.

This is so true, especially in safety. We could also include fatigue. But these are not "sins". They are part of being human. Rather than refer to it as "laziness" which doesn't help anyone, why not acknowledge what the neuroscience shows and help people deal with doing things in autopilot (without much thinking, if any at all). From the outside, it looks like laziness or complacency, but that's just the tag we give it. The solution is not to control the world around us so we never get impatient, fatigued or complacent. Getting people to try to continuously think about safety is not much of a solution either because the human brain just doesn't work that way. The solution is to teach people how to recognize these human functionalities asap and get them to apply techniques that minimize their impact at that time.

Impatience is actually greed or desperation. Laziness is an entitlement to get what we dont deserve. Are you impatient or lazy? www.paintminds.com PaintMinds Consulting Pvt. Ltd. #lazy #impatience

An important skill to develop

There's a lot of fluff about what success really is. At the end of the day it's simple. It's all about hitting key results. We can debate about what results are the right results to target but that's a strategic decision that needs to be made by each individual and team walking the walk. Success is most certainly not failing a lot. You need to get through lots of failures to get to success but success does not equal failure. Because 1 does not equal 0. There's a world of difference between putting up with failure as a necessary evil to get to success and ... ... glorifying failure as an end in itself and literally dismissing key results. Let's get it right. Success = key results. Which entails putting up with failures. Scott Varho thanks for sharing your thoughts on this - I'm definitely with you on this

The only option