Communicating Flashcards
Failing to communicate create a threat in your partners mind that you were not committed to the collaboration, that you do not trust them or that you just might make a run for the go all by yourself and claim all the credit.
It’s much easier to vilify someone who has not explained his motivations, much easier to read into the silence the threat of an unpleasant surprise.
When I initially brief my first officers, I always invite their participation and encourage them to bring for their experience. I asked them to tell me when I am in error, particularly when I am not in compliance with rules or regulations. We can disagree on politics or religion or investment strategies, but I find it to be a great advantage to harmonize cockpit views regarding our operations. The only way to do that is to respect fully inviting consider first officers views.
The ability to bounce ideas off each other proved to be the principal strength of the collaboration between creek and Wattson and Discover and DNA.
A refusal to collaborate cost one respect, professional courtesy and credit.
The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over their undisciplined foes follows chiefly from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades.
Benjamin Franklin on paying it forward
I do not pretend to give such as Sam, I only lend it to you. He wrote. When you meet with another honest man in similar distress, you must pay me by lending this some to him, and joining him to discharge the debt by the lake operation when he she’ll be able and she’ll meet with another opportunity. I hope it made us go through many hands before it meets with the knave that will stop it’s progress
A good collaborator has confidence and is crisp. He can also be funny, with a joke for every situation. In his presence, one can become funny as well, and the result is that collects can spend hours of solid work in continuous mirth
Looking within
Both partners or app to overestimate their own contributions, to see the others weaknesses clear than what his drinks, and to find the others way of doing things odd comment to make wrong assumptions and to communicate to Little and Berfas haps define trust itself elusive. The most dangerous trap of collaboration is the convenient availability of someone else to blame for its failure.
Tens ignore GE and Edmund Hilary – – and intense desire to achieve a mutual goal overcomes “small Pickering is in resentments – – the mole hills that interfere with scaling amount.
Loosen up, put aside your competitive nature and prepackaged view of how the things should be done and your desire not to be inconvenienced with the imperfections have a fellow human being.
Demonstrate trust in more people, and see if they don’t surprise you with their trustworthiness. Be slower to anger and quicker to forgive. And along the way, communicate continuously.
Executives, managers and other high-ranking partners do better when they build a partnership when they exercise command.