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Outcomes change hiring bliss
In speaking,
what do you emphasize, what do you
stress?
Let me guess.
You emphasize what the other
person is obviously not getting and then
you stress that personality flaw which
prevents the ‘getting’ of it.
Why?
Because you have time enough to
repeat yourself while lamenting the
obtuseness of the listener.
Speaking
through your radio, I don’t have that
luxury.
I must know the outcome I want
before I give it voice.
How do I
remain focused on outcome?
By asking myself these two
questions and noting where I place the
emphasis in my mind.
Do I have something to say or
something I want you to hear?
Do I want to tell you something
or do I want you to think something,
feel something or do something as a
result?
Here’s my
mantra:
What outcome do I want from what comes out of my mouth?
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Change what must be altered
Now consider
this mantra:
“Grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change; courage to
change the things I can; and wisdom to
know the difference.”
As more
evidence points to Reinhold Niebuhr as
the original author, it is worth
pondering his original words:
“Give us courage to change what
must be altered, serenity to accept what
cannot be helped, and the insight to
know the one from the other.”
Consider the
main difference between the two.
The new version asks for ‘courage
to change the things I can’ whereas the
original calls for ‘courage to change
what must be altered’.
The one allows for choice; the
other demands action.
The original
leads with an action statement, a
warning that some things must be
altered.
And the new one?
It begins with a plea for
serenity to accept, to give in.
It seems to
me that we have adopted the wrong
version.
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Hiring in your own image
Talking about
‘wrong versions’. . . .
If you are hiring (finally!),
then you are likely making a classic
hiring mistake.
You are
about to hire someone who fits in.
Of course you
are going to read the resume and
study the form.
You might even do background
checks.
And then you are going to
select the candidate who is ‘one of
us’.
The one made in your image.
Maybe you
won’t do so consciously, but chances
are you will.
It’s human.
You might
believe in diversity; you might
practice color and gender diversity.
But do you have social
diversity, cultural diversity?
Above all, do you have
mind-set diversity?
Remember,
groupthink and like-mindedness got
us into this mess.
Don’t hire in your image.
Please, not again.
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Going for hope, kicked by bliss
And don’t
again rely on hope.
Here’s why.
My daughter was going for Hope
when she got kicked by Bliss.
My daughter
helps with abused horses.
As she walked to the horse called
Hope, she moved past the horse called
Bliss.
Bliss took offense and kicked my
daughter, who landed in the mud.
Kicked by
Bliss going after Hope.
This got me
thinking.
How often do we not make the same
mistake!
We count on hope for a better
future and we ignore bliss in the
present.
Then we are surprised when we
land in the mud of the moment.
From now on,
I’m going to lavish attention on bliss
right here and let hope take care of
herself.
As they say in the classics,
bliss at hand is worth two hopes in the
mud.
∞
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