http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/02/08/leading-change-the-power-of-authentic-dialog/ A blog by Ryan Quinn, Robert Quinn, Shawn Quinn and Schon Beechler Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:57:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/02/08/leading-change-the-power-of-authentic-dialog/comment-page-1/#comment-2295 How to create an Extraordinary Workplace: Rebuild Relationships | Love Your Work Life Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:42:42 +0000 http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/?p=356#comment-2295 [...] DB: The answer to creating an extraordinary workplace actually, amazingly enough, begins with each one of us.  Rather than looking outward at the organization, we look within and start discovering our own core.  And that is sometime very difficult to do because it also means having the willingness to look at our own weaknesses, look at our own frailties, the willingness to be wrong sometimes, the willingness to give up our ego image that tries to be superior and protective.  Because when we do that, we take down the walls but block the teamwork and block the communication that a successful organization needs.  So, leaders have to do that.  They have to have the courage to be real and authentic. [...] [...] DB: The answer to creating an extraordinary workplace actually, amazingly enough, begins with each one of us.  Rather than looking outward at the organization, we look within and start discovering our own core.  And that is sometime very difficult to do because it also means having the willingness to look at our own weaknesses, look at our own frailties, the willingness to be wrong sometimes, the willingness to give up our ego image that tries to be superior and protective.  Because when we do that, we take down the walls but block the teamwork and block the communication that a successful organization needs.  So, leaders have to do that.  They have to have the courage to be real and authentic. [...]

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