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I don’t pretend to know everything it takes to be a great leader. I do know that I have tremendous respect for business people who are calm, decisive, energized, and really present. I also know that I’m at my professional worst when I’m frenzied, unfocused, tired, distracted. And I’ve noticed that I often get bogged down by a most curious phenomenon: clutter.
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This week’s tip is brought to you thanks to my extraordinary partnership with co-author, Charlie Green. It answers this question: What do you do when your client is a jerk?
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When you think about your biggest role model for keeping it real, I bet you don’t immediately think, “Beauty pageant contestant!”
For me, words like “made up” and “dolled up” come to mind sooner for me than “authentic” and “genuine”—or used to.
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If you’ve been tuning in for the past two weeks, you know I’ve been sharing three-word phrases that belong in everyone’s trusted advisor toolkit. So far, those are “That makes sense” and “I don’t know.” The third and last trust-building phrase is “Tell me more.” (We could add “I love you” to the list of word triplets, but then things start to get a little too squishy. Or do they?)
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Last week I shared the first of three phrases, each coincidentally three words long, that I believe to be an essential part of any trusted advisor toolkit: “That makes sense.” This week’s three-word phrase is “I don’t know.”
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My mother always told me that bad luck comes in threes. At the risk of pushing my luck, I’m going to disagree with her—at least when it comes to trustworthiness. Here is the first of three phrases, each coincidentally three words long, that are an essential part of any trusted advisor toolkit: “That makes sense.”