Performance expert Tony Schwartz.
A note to leaders: You, yes you, are human, and you therefore carry and transmit emotions that sap your own and other people’s ability to create value. You create *reverse value propositions* that slow your progress toward the Big Hairy Audacious Goal you want for your organization and yourself.
What drains productive energy from you and others? Feeling devalued, or devaluing others. That’s according to performance expert Tony Schwartz, whose “How your value is critical to creating value” webinar I watched today so I could create some value for my professional coaching clients.
“Value” is getting repetitive here, no? Let me clarify that we’re talking about two kinds of value:
- *Being* valued (feeling accepted, acknowledged, respected, worthwhile); and
- *Creating* value (e.g. ending hunger through work at a nonprofit organization, or satisfying hunger through work at a for-profit food company).
Being devalued is like staring down a lion
Tony says energy drains from you and others when you feel devalued (not accepted, acknowledged, respected, worthwhile) because: Continue Reading…
