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Accepting NewSmart and Humility as well as practising Quieting Ego, Managing Self, and Reflective Listening lays the groundwork for relationship building with others.
What else can you do to help yourself better focus on and connect with other people? Here are five keys to connecting with others:
(1) be present,
(2) be genuine,
(3) communicate affirmation,
(4) listen effectively, and
(5) communicate support.
Trust doesn’t just happen—it takes hard work, and it requires slowing down and taking time to be genuine with and care about other people.
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The outward focus that follows from a Humility mindset is what’s in our best interest. Truly effective teamwork, collaboration, and innovation can’t happen when we’re defensive or when we’re too tied up in looking or feeling superior to our colleagues, teammates, clients, or customers.
Humi...
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Managing our emotions and behavioural reactivity is also important to managing ourselves, and so is our ability to understand and react appropriately to other people’s emotions—which together constitute emotional intelligence (EI).
This is so very important because so much of the value-add...
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Old Cultural Ways:
Individual wins, Play cards close to the chest, Highest ranking person wins, Listen to confirm, Telling, Knowing, IQ, Mistakes are bad, Competing, Self-promote.
New Cultural Ways:
Teams win, Transparency, the Best idea wins, Listening...
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You must slow down and make daily, thoughtful choices and exert effort to engage in the behaviours that will allow you to develop the skills you’ll need to survive and thrive.
Quieting Ego is how we can deliberately work to reduce our reflexive emotional defensiveness; have empathy and open...
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NewSmart is a measure not of what you know or how much you know but of
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Smart technologies will become ubiquitous, invading and changing many aspects of our professional and personal lives and in many ways challenging our fundamental beliefs about success, opportunity, and the American Dream. The best research to date indicates a high probability that technology will...
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It’s hard for any of us to critique our own thinking and truly think critically. We’re just too wired to confirm what we already believe, and we feel too comfortable having a cohesive simple story of how our world works. We need to have thinking “partners” who force us to confront those biases, a...
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Society is on the leading edge of a technology tsunami. Advances in artificial intelligence, the internet of Things, virtual reality, robotics, nanotechnology, deep learning, mapping the human brain, and biomedical, genetic, and cyborg engineering will revolutionize how most of us live and work. ...
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In the last few decades, the American worker has been outsourced, off-shored, and automated on many factory floors and in many routine tasks. Up next is broader and more encompassing automation that will likely affect many more workers, including many professionals.
While automation has bee...
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In the Smart Machine Age or SMA—operational excellence may well become almost totally technology-driven, making human innovation the key to value creation.
Organizations will need their people to be hyper-learners who can adapt to rapidly changing environments. These needs are unlike what ...
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Humility is rarely associated with intellectual aptitude or professional success in Western societies, especially in the United States.
Synonyms for Humility often include lowliness, meekness, and submissiveness—characteristics that would seem to be the antithesis of achievement and succes...
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That doesn’t mean thinking less of yourself, but it does mean thinking about yourself less (e.g., how you look, what other people are thinking or saying about you; how you’re coming across; how you’re being judged). It implies the lack of intellectual pretentiousness, boastfulness, or conceit, co...
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The most effective way to quiet our ego is through practising mindfulness.
Quieting Ego through mindfulness results in heightened attention and awareness to experience and reality—in the present moment—that is open and receptive without bias or distortion.
Meditation is one way to i...
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A fundamental component of managing ourselves is the simplest to understand but not always the simplest to do: Slowing down. This seems counterintuitive to the cultural pressures in this day and age of doing more and more, faster and faster, with fewer and fewer resources. What w...
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Listening is the way most of us learn. To be a good listener you have to be totally focused on the speaker with an open mind. You have to listen in a non-judgmental way, with the only goal being to try to understand what the other person is saying before you prepare and deliver your response.
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To manage and lead a team, you need to meditate so that you dissolve your ego. Buddhism for the corporate world.
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