WHAT:
This
week in lecture we discussed Chapter 17 of Adaptive Leadership: Stay Connected to Your Purposes. I found this chapter
especially stimulating because it helped me to define my overarching purpose:
to improve things for myself as well as for others around me. The chapter
describes the importance of maintaining complete awareness of your purpose in
all aspects of life and thus gives strategies to aid in this task including:
negotiate the ethics of leadership and purpose, keep purposes alive, negotiate your
purposes, and integrate your ambitions and aspirations. When reading about and
discussing the strategy of negotiating your purposes, I was immediately
reminded of an inspiring speech I heard during my internship last summer with
Deloitte Consulting.
Anyone
and everyone is bound to encounter someone with a purpose that conflicts with
their own. As a consultant, you are constantly fighting this battle with the
client because they want something done a certain way that makes sense to them,
but may not seem the most optimal solution to the consultant. The chapter
describes one way of negotiating your purpose so that others support it by
translating your purpose into a language that others can understand and will
respond to favorably. The inspiring speech that mimics this exact approach can
be seen here.
I
tend to use this strategy in my everyday life and especially in my professional
career next year as an information technology consultant for Deliotte. If you
stop and think about it, it really does make sense to take a minute to evaluate
why the client wants what they want and then translate your standpoint and
solution in a way that satisfies their concerns and exceeds their expectations.
In this way, you are more then likely to gain their support and acceptance. I
honestly feel as though the principle of translating your purpose into a way
that others understand and can support is a lesson that can be applied to
anyone, anywhere,
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