Seth Godin Blog

MAY 13, 2017

This is why we don't save for retirement, don't pay attention to long-term environmental issues, and, tragically, tolerate (or fall prey to) irrational rants about things like vaccines. About how we can fall into the trap of being well-meaning, emotional and loud in the short run, but how the truth of time changes the way we see things.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Teach leaders and employees through stories about how they should respond in different situations and the costs of tolerating toxicity. Don't let the truth run faster than love." The truth is there is a lot you can learn when you don't walk away. Hire and fire employees to create and reinforce the desired company culture.

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LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2023

That means leaders must be transparent , honest in the face of change , encourage honest feedback , and reward truthfulness. new high tech startup business line) while even minimal mistakes cannot be tolerated for other strategic initiatives (e.g., Smart leaders know that you should act the way you want employees to behave.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 30, 2022

The truth is a boss can fire someone at will. The right of good working conditions where safety is paramount, teamwork is the norm, harassment of any kind s not tolerated, and employees have the appropriate tools and resources to do an excellent job. European countries do a better job. Unions are on the decline.

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Nash Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

As a group of employees learns their own and others’ behavior styles, some pretty cool things can happen in the workplace, including an increase in tolerance and grace, improved communication, better authenticity and more honest conversations, mutual respect, and more. WHAT'S YOUR VIBE? Behavior styles are not about how you feel.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

Take an inventory of the practices, policies, and controls found in your organization: Are they risk-tolerant? Ceding control also requires a certain tolerance for mistakes. Being transparent signals that you trust your employees with the truth , even in difficult circumstances. Sharing information.

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Melissa Agnes

JULY 10, 2014

And to be clear, there is an important distinction between a negative review rooted in truth and a review that it is harmful because it is actually comprised of false and disparaging statements. Fortunately, Yelp does not tolerate defamatory content. Yelp’s policies.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

Dueling fact bases aren’t uncommon in organizations, but they intensify when people fear being held accountable for the truth. The speed of change will depend on your particular situation and what the business can tolerate. When she would question the data presented to her, people got defensive. Some say clean house on day one.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The truth is that anybody can be creative, given the right opportunities and context. They see creation as an event rather than a process, don’t invest in expertise or exploration, and refuse to tolerate wrong turns and dead ends. Yet in decades of creativity research, no such trait has ever been identified.

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Rod Burkert

JULY 18, 2018

The truth is, if you have a niche, you’ll go super deep into it and end up learning everything there is to know about it. I am re-reading Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi, and I came across this quote about fear: People with a low tolerance for risk, whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success. In real life.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

In his best-selling book, Superforecasting , Philip Tetlock states “The job of intelligence is to speak truth to power, not tell [the powers] temporarily in charge what they want to hear.” ” But what is truth in an ambiguous world? Is there just one? Use competitive intelligence differently.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2017

However, the Latin roots of the word “creative” — which describe a social, communal experience — reveal a fundamental truth: Creativity is founded upon collaboration. I don’t tolerate prima donnas.” Too often, we think of creativity as an individual pursuit.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Why are we so bad at enaging with this obvious truth? Or consider the zero-tolerance policy in some schools. More doesn''t scale forever. In Malcolm''s new book , he points out that our expectation is that most things will respond in a linear way. More input gets us more output. If you want a hotter fire, add more wood.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

Why would executives at so many iconic organizations — Volkswagen, Wells Fargo, FIFA — tolerate behavior so egregious that it threatens the very future of their organizations? What defines acceptable personal behavior (let alone behavior worth emulating) among public officials? People like living in that environment.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2016

The truth is the large majority of us are failure hypocrites. He was afraid to admit the truth, and he ended up being asked to leave that part of the business. If you can’t admit failure, you won’t tolerate it from others. Let me show you what I mean. I’ve seen it with clients.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

When implicit biases about female fragility lurk in the unconscious, men tend to underestimate women’s ability to tolerate stress and respond to challenge. Men are socialized to see women as delicate, mysterious, and less capable and resilient in the face of challenge.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The Chinese Communist Party has ruled the country since 1949, tolerating no opposition and often dealing brutally with dissent. Anyone who bothers to bluntly speak the truth, like I just did, would not last a day in China. If the state decides to burn Gillis at the stake, then that's precisely why will happen.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 5, 2015

The economic truth of today no longer offers me much solace; I am taking the blue pills now. We perceive a ‘greater tolerance for short term drawdowns’ as quite dangerous in connection with risk assets at this juncture. But I no longer think that anyone can say when." “The

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It’s hard to imagine that a success rate that low would be tolerated in any other business function. The truth is nobody cares about what ideas you have. That’s quite a mismatch. In the public sector, return on basic research has been estimated to be between 30% and 100%. Focus on Problems, Not Ideas. It’s not.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

For Avaya, its lackluster NPS score reflected a simple truth: Innovation was the key to survival because it is the growth engine. The most-innovative CEOs and the companies that perform at the highest levels are not merely risk tolerant — they manage their company’s diverse risks like an investment portfolio.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Dressed in faux-neutral neologisms like “post-truth” and “alt-right,” propaganda, racism, and xenophobia have elbowed their way back into the mainstream. It emphasized commonality of experience and tolerance of differences. And cosmopolitans are being portrayed as a detached and indulgent elite.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It is also correlated with a tolerance for rule-breaking, which perhaps is the extreme last-recourse solution for the lone wolf. Senior leaders need to see the truth about the bank’s culture and engage all employees in the effort to repair it.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 24, 2020

But I know the truth. Everyone thinks I left Disney to start my own consulting practice but I am going to let you in on the truth. It also includes a sense of tolerance, acceptance and forgiveness of others. Author Sue Monk Kidd explains, “ The truth may set you free but first it will shatter the safe, sweet way you live.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

By tolerating negative comments about a teammate, you’re providing an audience for destructive behavior and likely helping to create factions in the office. If you believe there is some truth to the comments your teammate is making, try to get the concerns aired in a forum where they can be addressed constructively.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2018

The truth was she’d been in talks with Doghouse Luxe, a luxury dog food specialist, for the past two weeks. Pete’s Pet Shop, across town, was a city institution, named for its founder—a beloved curmudgeon who adored animals and tolerated humans. Selling to a competitor actually seems easier. It feels less personal.”

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It’s one of those timeless truths that transcend technology and economics. When times are good, mediocre talent is often tolerated or goes unnoticed. It says that no company can become or remain great if it allows its growth rate in revenues to exceed its growth in getting the right people in a sustainable way.

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It’s one of those timeless truths that transcend technology and economics. When times are good, mediocre talent is often tolerated or goes unnoticed. It says that no company can become or remain great if it allows its growth rate in revenues to exceed its growth in getting the right people in a sustainable way.

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Confessions of a Consultant

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Organization Tolerance: Some organizations are more tolerant of this than others. The husband said: “I’m sorry I hid this from you but the truth is every time I cheated on you over the last 30 years I put a golf ball in the drawer.”. While being attracted to someone is fundamentally human, it can carry a high price tag.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

The training session could serve as a sort of pilot study: What if mindfulness could be a tool for helping employees tolerate the sort of discomfort my grad school peers weren’t able to handle? Diversity initiatives are important, and discussions about sensitive topics like race, gender, and ethnicity need to occur.

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Cheryl Cran

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What’s a leader to do but increase ability to build disruption tolerance in times of intense uncertainty. So in these times of intense uncertainty how do we build disruption tolerance? Here are 5 ways: Think of disruption tolerance as another two words for adaptability or flexibility. Mergers, acquisitions, hurricanes, oh my!

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

What sort of due diligence must a prospective employer do to determine the truth of allegations of sexual harassment? The court concluded that the recommenders could be liable for “misleading half-truths” when the administrator molested another student at his new job. If not, how can serial harassers be stopped?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

Stress tolerance, self-regard, and optimism help leaders develop inner resources. These are real moments of leadership and truth. We asked survey recipients what inspired them about their colleagues. Vitality, humility, and empathy help leaders connect. Openness, unselfishness, and responsibility help set the tone.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

Firms must recognize and react to three uncomfortable truths. ” The agile enterprise equips all organizational layers with decision guideposts and boundaries to set thresholds of risk tolerance. First, cyber risk evolves according to Moore’s Law.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Management clearly did not think this was ‘common and expected’ uncertainty; they would have tolerated it for maybe two years. This system serves as a single source of truth for decision-making and is informed by real-time buffer consumption, guiding efficient resource allocation. They said, ‘In the U.S.,

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Leadership Vision Consulting

MAY 6, 2014

During the 14 years since I was trained as a StrengthsFinder practitioner that truth has become more and more clear to me. I would tolerate being on teams , but did not always embrace playing my part for the greater good. 1 yes for 1,000 no’s? That could not be right.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2016

Instead, you see the costs indirectly: In the defection of your stars, in the recruits you didn’t land, and in the direct advice and feedback you’re not getting because the truth-tellers are reporting to energy vampires. Many clever people are energy vampires, finding lots of ways to slow down action in your companies.

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

Truth in Accounting. Any attempt to crack down on one form of bad lending will only cause another form of bad lending to surge, and if Beijing really wants to control the worsening financial risk it will have to tolerate growth rates of 3-4% or less. Americans For Prosperity. CATO Institute. Future of Freedom Foundation. Union Watch.

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