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This is Your Moment: Find and Follow Your Unique Path in Life and Your Business
Is it time to refocus your life, career and business?
This practical, easy-to-read guide will help you simplify your life and remove the friction from your business. If you’re at a transitional point in your career, this book will prepare and sustain you to make the moves you need to for your future. Now you’re ready to make the impact you’ve always dreamt of.
This practical, easy-to-read guide will help you simplify your life and remove the friction from your business. If you’re at a transitional point in your career, this book will prepare and sustain you to make the moves you need to for your future. Now you’re ready to make the impact you’ve always dreamt of.
121 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 9, 2021
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April 16, 2022
Excellent book which I'd recommend for anyone who works in a professional working environment and in particular in consulting. What I found really effective about the book was that the key lessons that Andy talks about you can apply to life outside work as well. This is always a clinching factor for me when I read any business related books: will it help me as an individual outside work or not? This one certainly did.
Here are the best bits from the book:
I believe that if we focus on trying to be good at everything then we become average at everything.
Giving feedback is so important and it comes with a huge responsibility to take care of the mental health of the person who's going to receive the feedback.
I love the idea of sharing thoughts and ideas and holding them gently, not forcing them on others and being absolutely prepared to drop them when something more effective comes along. That way one’s ideas can help engage others and shape bigger better and more inclusive ideas.
What we hear ourselves say has a dramatic impact on our mindset and this then reinforces what we continue to say and what we begin to believe and then what we choose to see and hear.
I decided to try to find one thing just one thing that I respected about this man. It took some time but he was actually really good at engaging with very senior stakeholders and was super impressive in those huge meetings where one has to appear super slick and on point. I consciously focused on those strengths of his, on the area where I respected him. I verbalized this to those we worked with and made a point to hear myself say where I really valued and respected him. It didn't change the areas where I found him unreasonable, but it did seem to make him easier to work with. His attitude to me and those around me changed because he felt respected and he calmed down in those areas where he was difficult.
Inevitably we risk moving towards diverse looking organizations where everyone can be successful if and only if they conform to a fixed cultural way of working that is aligned with the organization's predominant working style or culture. That culture is highly likely to exclude a huge proportion of those diverse voices, it's highly likely that one type of person will succeed in that environment and despite the forced measures and metrics it won't feel like a place where everyone can be themselves and celebrate their differences.
We need to put our people first and our clients or customers first too. Clients or customers are not more important than our people. If you can't be honest, straightforward, vulnerable, respectful and always assume positive intent from your people in the same way you would with a client or a customer then why should those people move heaven and earth to support your clients or customers? Put your people first and your clients or your customers first too, don't be cheap, say thank you, cut your income before you cut the budget for the end of year party, send flowers, say hello, say happy birthday, be open and vulnerable, bring the real you as a leader to work, demonstrate your failures and learnings.
Here are the best bits from the book:
I believe that if we focus on trying to be good at everything then we become average at everything.
Giving feedback is so important and it comes with a huge responsibility to take care of the mental health of the person who's going to receive the feedback.
I love the idea of sharing thoughts and ideas and holding them gently, not forcing them on others and being absolutely prepared to drop them when something more effective comes along. That way one’s ideas can help engage others and shape bigger better and more inclusive ideas.
What we hear ourselves say has a dramatic impact on our mindset and this then reinforces what we continue to say and what we begin to believe and then what we choose to see and hear.
I decided to try to find one thing just one thing that I respected about this man. It took some time but he was actually really good at engaging with very senior stakeholders and was super impressive in those huge meetings where one has to appear super slick and on point. I consciously focused on those strengths of his, on the area where I respected him. I verbalized this to those we worked with and made a point to hear myself say where I really valued and respected him. It didn't change the areas where I found him unreasonable, but it did seem to make him easier to work with. His attitude to me and those around me changed because he felt respected and he calmed down in those areas where he was difficult.
Inevitably we risk moving towards diverse looking organizations where everyone can be successful if and only if they conform to a fixed cultural way of working that is aligned with the organization's predominant working style or culture. That culture is highly likely to exclude a huge proportion of those diverse voices, it's highly likely that one type of person will succeed in that environment and despite the forced measures and metrics it won't feel like a place where everyone can be themselves and celebrate their differences.
We need to put our people first and our clients or customers first too. Clients or customers are not more important than our people. If you can't be honest, straightforward, vulnerable, respectful and always assume positive intent from your people in the same way you would with a client or a customer then why should those people move heaven and earth to support your clients or customers? Put your people first and your clients or your customers first too, don't be cheap, say thank you, cut your income before you cut the budget for the end of year party, send flowers, say hello, say happy birthday, be open and vulnerable, bring the real you as a leader to work, demonstrate your failures and learnings.
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