by Rick Baker
On Jul 15, 2013
Thought Tweet #781.5 Introduce Interests, Express Expectations...do not leave these vital communications to chance.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
If you introduce your Interests people have a chance to understand what you want. Maybe they share your Interests. Maybe their Interests align with yours. Maybe they do not. If you introduce your Interests you, at least, have a fighting chance to know.
If you express your Expectations people have a chance to understand what you want from them. Maybe they share your Expectations. Maybe their Expectations align with yours. Maybe they do not. If you express your Expectations you, at least, have a fighting chance to know.
And at least of equal importance, other people have a chance to know. If you want to accomplish things with the help of other people, you must agree you owe them that.
Interests and Expectations: around the essence of communication. Just add story and repetition.
by Rick Baker
On Jul 15, 2013
Thought Tweet #781 People eat sour fruit sparingly. Yet they complain about it much.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
Sometimes sour fruit is the best thing to consume. The British found that out several centuries ago and the practice of eating limes was encouraged by Scottish Dr. James Lind. He helped the British Navy understand limes and lime juice prevented sailors from the pain and suffering of scurvy. This fact was known prior to the arrival of Dr. Lind. And, the benefit of limes was well understood when he documented proof. Yet, the practice of eating limes to prevent scurvy was not adopted by the British Navy until some time later.
The first sailors who ate limes were ridiculed. By fellow sailors and pirates alike.
To this day the legacy of ridicule lives on in the form of a derogatory/racist ancestor of the word lime.
To this day, people resist when others try to force them to eat sour fruit.
So, take care when you try to unload sour fruit on your people.
Care taken while introducing sour fruit is inversely proportional to the amount of complaining that introduction generates. The greater the care, the lesser the complaints.
by Rick Baker
On Jul 12, 2013
Thought Tweet #780.5 Grow your business by (A) Watching more Reality TV...say those alligator hunters or (B) Learning how to make changes.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
I suppose I have a bit of a problem with Reality TV.
It seems to me all the episodes about alligator hunters, child models, cake makers, pawn brokers, storage closet people, and garbage pickers are diluting rather than adding to reality.