By Eliot Wagonheim & Jodi Hume
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It’s our final episode, and we have a lot to say, including thank you so much for listening!
Why is that important for business?
We are sad (and grateful and excited and…) to announce this is our final episode. As we reminisce about some of our favourite memories – including our live event and the Stalking Face Cake – we also want to impart some final lessons from our decision to end the podcast here. And obviously, we want to thank everyone for listening and supporting us since we started this podcast.
It is our testament to having faith and trusting that if something is real to us, it will resonate with the right people. And like works of art, sometimes you have to say: “this canvas is complete”. There is an assumption sometimes that keeping going is inherently better than ending a thing. But stories can’t go on forever.
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Is your business in a rut? Is everyone showing up with “Non-Player Characters” energy? When you have an Organizational Depressive State, it can be hard to get out of it – or can it be as simple as one person, one change? Let’s discuss!
Why is that important for business?
When you walk into a business and feel like your life force begins to immediately drain – like everyone is walking around with NPC (Non-Player Character) energy, it can feel like it’s impossible (or at least exhausting) to fix. But if just one person showed up with different energy, would that reset the tone?
For someone to change things, they have to first notice they are being a Non-Player Character, and they have to care enough to make that change, which is part of the problem. It can feel like an Organizational Depressive State.
Of course, positive energy can be sucked out of someone by an organization stuck in a rut as well. If someone comes in with positive energy, there’s a race to see whether that person’s energy makes positive changes, or whether that person’s energy gets beaten out of them. It’s a race to see if the person or the place wins.
The energy you bring into a space can affect other people, and you can also be affected by other’s energy, if you allow it.
Other Resources Mentioned
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-library
Free Guy (movie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2m-08cOAbc
What We Do in the Shadows (tv show) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7908628/
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How do you strike the balance between keeping things that you might not ever need, and getting rid of things that you might regret not having?
Why is that important for business?
Having exactly what you need but nothing extra is a Nirvana that few can ever attain.
It might show up in the amount of stuff you have, in your processes, or even in your systems.
Even space can be hoarded – there is something about having more space that is associated with success, and something about downsizing (or right-sizing) space that feels like going backwards.
There is a trap of equating quantity of value and worrying you won’t have when you eventually need it. How do you decide what you keep and what you can get by without, and when does not having it become more of a problem than having it around?
Perhaps we need a spring cleaning in business, not just for our stuff, but for the processes and systems we have.
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Do you expect to be heard? Or do you just assume that how things are is how they have to be?
Why is that important for business?
Do you have a say or a voice? Do you expect to be heard? If your whole experience in life is being heard, then it is more likely that is your expectation. If you are systematically and systemically overlooked, it doesn’t build the confidence to speak with authority about things.
Where can you start using your voice where you currently think you have no power? How do you start acting as if you have the authority?
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Like all good lessons about asking for what you need in business, this lesson starts in a massage parlor.
Why is that important for business?
You need to be aware of your needs (in business and in life) and communicate them effectively. Sometimes, when you are staring at a blank page, you just need to figure out what the first sentence should be and start from there.
There is nothing about work and leading that doesn’t involve identifying what is needed and asking for what is needed.
In the book, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, we learn there are internalizers and externalizers. A lot of conflict in teams comes down to friction between internalizers (non-direct communicators) and externalizers (more direct).
A lot of conflict in teams comes down to the friction between internalizers and externalizers (or direct and indirect people) and how they handle things.
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When you find out you are riding with the descendent of a nationally acclaimed blind wrestler, you know you’re in for some stories. And it turns out, we can turn those stories into some business lessons!
Why is that important for business?
There are interesting challenges to being blind when pursuing a sport like wrestling – it can be harder to see what’s coming, but you become very skilled at dealing with what’s in front of you. An honest understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, whether it’s in sport or in business, can mean all the difference in how you perform.
There are also lessons to be learned in regards to hiring – what assumptions are you making about your needs – maybe in terms of education or experience – that aren’t actually necessary to find the best candidate.
In either case, whether hiring someone or dealing with your own perceived weaknesses, you need confidence to see the path that isn’t obvious to everyone. When you can see further than other people can, it can be frustrating to be underestimated or misunderstood. But if you want to forge a path that not every other person has plodded down, you’ll have to get used to being misunderstood and slowing down your thought process to explain things over and over again. There is a set of luggage that comes with being able to see things others can’t.
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We don't talk about endings enough, especially not ending things well, with as much celebration as we began them. And that is exactly what this episode is about.
Why is that important for business?
Consider ending your business, or a product line, or even a relationship with a client or a team member – are you putting in the same effort to make a beautiful ending as you did when you started? Instead of ending by tapering off into a fizzling nothingness, celebrate everything that was; end with as much joy as you started with. Just because something is ending, doesn’t mean it was a failure; endings aren’t inherently bad. That is the belief that allows people to hold onto things they shouldn’t.
In public speaking, there are two aspects of the talk of particular import: primacy and recency. Primacy is the first thing you say, and it is what will be remembered. But recency, the last thing you said, is equally as memorable. So when considering how you want to be remembered, or how you want your business to be remembered, consider both the beginning and the end.
It is also important to remember that quitting is an art. We often have weird hang-ups around ending things or quitting things. But we need to allow endings to be thinkable, to be okay. If the possibility of an ending is unthinkable, you shut down so many options. It doesn’t have to be sad or wrong to say “this is done”; it is important to know when the last brush stroke has been applied to the painting. But take just as much care with the final brush strokes as you did with the rest, or your work may be ruined.
This also applies to letting someone go.
“The time has come for us to help you succeed somewhere else.” Paul Ricks
When someone is not a right fit, love them enough to not let them stay somewhere they don’t shine. Help them find where they belong and let them leave as a valued member of the team. Put as much effort into that ending as you did with the onboarding.
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Whether it’s politics, sports or happy hour, sometimes your company culture can make others feel uncomfortable. At what point do you make changes to include people, and at what point is that watering down an important aspect of your culture?
Why is that important for business?
In the office, sometimes cultures develop that can be polarizing. How do you handle it when new people come into conflict with the existing culture? How does diversity of thought and perspective reconcile with not wanting to break what works?
There is a whole new social ritual happening now in offices, and it requires a new skill set of empathy.
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Your company culture, a new board game, and all the ways they relate.
Why is that important for business?
A new board game allows people to make choices that would benefit everyone. And more people were interested in taking that choice – to advance the game for everyone – instead of just progressing closer to the ultimate goal of winning. People who played the game chose collaboration over playing simply for the objective of winning. Which makes us think about company culture.
What are the other strategies and ways that you can create a company culture, realizing that your department can’t win at the expense of other people at the company?
If you aren’t aware of this, you can easily accidentally incentivize the wrong behaviors.
It’s also important that the rules – of the game or the culture – not be arbitrary and make natural sense. This requires a full understanding of the “if-then” – it requires a lot of transparency.
Other resources mentioned
Wingspan game: https://stonemaiergames.com/games/wingspan/
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Culture – whether in your business or in your family – isn’t just established in big picture planning. It is established in the little decisions that you make all the time about what’s important to you in the moment.
Why is that important for business?
Sometimes in business, we make lists of our values and try to establish a culture around that. But often it is the small moments – where we have to make decisions about what really matters in that moment – that create culture. What you prioritize doesn’t always exist on a big sheet of paper somewhere, but it shows up in the little decisions you make.
If you don’t like your culture, look at those decisions. Look at what values they transmit. It is in those moments that you are accidentally or intentionally creating culture.
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