#239: After your vote

Some of you who voted last week might still be disappointed because your candidate did not win. What are you going to do about it?

Those of you who are part of a successful team already know what to do. You will commit to make a success of the outcome, however you voted.

I once worked with a very successful team of executives. They had one critical rule. Members could disagree and argue as much as they wanted to inside the meeting, but not outside the meeting. In other words, once a decision was made, every executive acted as if he or she had always believed that this was the right decision.

The result? Most of their decisions were executed well and had successful outcomes.

I have also worked with executives who carried on wasting energy trying to convince others that the decision already taken would fail. Strangely, many of them weren’t around to see it succeed.




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