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Where are all the kind leaders?
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Hi Reader, Where are all the kind leaders? It's a good question. But .Turn off the TV for a moment. Stop scrolling. Think about the leaders you know. The community leaders. The teachers. The role models. The managers. The innovators. The bosses you've had who you you would do anything for because they had your back. The people trying their best to be as good as they can be, and doing the right thing . Look around you and most of what you'll see is your colleagues building trust and psychological safety for the people around them. You'll see people showing each other respect, keeping dignity high on the agenda and sticking to the commitments they make. Turn the TV back on or pick up your phone and it looks different. But remember "news", by it's very nature, reports on the stuff that is "remarkable" - that is to say, the things that are so out of the ordinary that they are worth remarking upon. We might be morbidly fascinated by bad behaviour, but let's not confuse that with being the norm. Now isn't the time to reject kindness, it's the time to double down on it. Have a great week, Graham P.S. We're doing a digital launch for KIND in America on Tuesday 5PM GMT / 12PM ET. If you'd like to come, just hit reply and I'll send you the link. |
Rev Up for the Week with Graham Allcott
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Hi Reader, Welcome to this week's Rev Up for the Week, where every Sunday at 4.05pm, I put something positive or productive in your inbox, ready for the week ahead. This week I want to talk about momentum. I've spent time with two clients this week whose work has felt like it has some real momentum behind it. After sticky patches and struggles, it's all systems go for them. And on our 6 Weeks to Ninja programme, I've been helping people get clearer on what they're working on, which in turn...
Hi Welcome to Rev Up for the Week, where every Sunday I give you something positive or productive for the week ahead. This week I want to talk about your to-do list. Is everything you’ve written there (or typed in there), actually a thing that you can do? Or are some of those things simply ‘nags’? Nags are the little thoughts we all have, that say things like: “Oh, I must do something about that!” “toilet roll. We need more toilet roll” “appraisals!” “MUM!” “ugh… the accounts” They can be big...
Hi Reader, A DJ friend of mine has a saying: “let’s all make mistakes!”. He goes out to play a DJ set, and over the course of the three hours, he counts them up. At the end of a typical set, he’s counted 7 or 8 times something screwed up. It’s annoying, sure, but he’s learnt not to be annoyed. The thing is, most of the stuff that screwed up, the crowd didn’t even notice: That time he forgot his favourite echo effect at the end of a song? No one knew it was supposed to be there, so no one...