From the course: Leadership Stories: 5-Minute Lessons in Leading People
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Stop people pleasing
From the course: Leadership Stories: 5-Minute Lessons in Leading People
Stop people pleasing
- Why are we so concerned about what other people think of us? I mean, a little is understandable but for a lot of us, we're so worried about what other people think that it stifles our creativity, and it saps our courage, and keeps us from making a real difference at work. It's paralyzing to constantly filter every decision you make through the lens of what your peers, or your boss, or sometimes just random strangers will think about it. Now, that's a lesson Richard Feynman learned while standing at his wife's hospital bed. Now, if you don't recognize that name, Richard Feynman won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965 but publicly, he was probably best remembered as the guy who solved the mystery of why the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff in 1986. Which he did, by the way, by refusing to go along with the investigation plan that NASA had approved, and that the US Congress had sent him and 11 other people to conduct. So, was Feynman just born brave? Well, yeah…
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Customer versus employee focus4m 40s
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Find passion for the customer3m 23s
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How to remove passion drains3m 47s
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How to finish the race3m 46s
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Build perseverance4m 2s
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Stop people pleasing3m 16s
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Overcome past failures2m 53s
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Overcome fear4m 57s
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Find common values2m 17s
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Use competition for collaboration3m 43s
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Never work with strangers again4m 41s
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Build company values through story3m 45s
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