If a picture is worth 1000 words, than a video must be worth 1,000,000. In the course of explaining concepts and facilitating teams I’ve found graphics and video illustrations to be extremely powerful. My recommendation: watch once to “take it in,” then a second time with some key concepts in mind (see below).

Concepts to Ponder (while re-watching the video):

• Work (…together, harmony…before the crisis)
• Common Cause (a prerequisite)
• Problems (will come)
• Practice (better have happened beforehand)
• Leadership (needed)
• Winning (together)

It’s easy, right? You’re in a meeting or listening to someone in a conversation and suddenly feel the need to respond or say something…Assuming it’s appropriate and the right thing to do (that, in itself, is an important decision – probably a good subject for another post), you just say it, right?

Before we jump into action, let’s pause to think. If you’ve made the decision to speak, I want to encourage you to consider that you have another important decision to make – it’s how you speak.

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Strategy therefore requires making explicit choices – to do some things and not others – and building a business around those choices. In short, strategy is choice. More specifically, strategy is an integrated set of choices that uniquely positions the firm in its industry so as to create sustainable advantage and superior value relative to the competition.”

A.G. Lafley (Chairman &  CEO of P&G) & Roger L. Martin

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Picture: Portrait – www.thetimes.co.uk