By Steve Moran
There are only two kinds of people in the world.
Bad people who don’t care about you at all.
Good people who won’t judge you for being human.
That’s it. That’s the whole framework. And if you let yourself believe it, it changes how you lead.
We Are All Performing
It’s a hard truth, but we are all performing. Every day. In every meeting, every conversation, every decision we make in front of other people. Think about the last conference you attended or presented at, the last meeting you attended, even in your own organization. Even those in the audience are performing.
That’s not a criticism. It’s truth. It’s me too. It’s everyone. Performance isn’t the problem. The question is who you’re performing for.
Here is the problem every leader has, including me: we spend considerable energy performing for people who will never applaud us. People who are not capable of being impressed by us. People who, no matter what we do, will find something lacking.
You know who they are. You’ve spent years trying to win them over anyway.
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