I received the following comment from Alan Weiss (Summit Consulting) in my email inbox this morning, and found it to be well worthy of a re-post. It’s crazy how zeal and insecurity can mix to have us overwhelm the people we work with…betraying the mission in the pursuit of the mission…
“This week’s focus point: Brevity isn’t merely the soul of wit (Hamlet). We seem obsessed with telling people everything we know rather than what they need to know (hence, all those boring undergraduate lectures). Keep two factors in mind in business: speed and brevity. The more quickly you help others, the more valuable you are. Of course, that entails the suppression of ego and a true focus on helping, and a strong self-esteem that doesn’t require that you continually prove how smart you are. Enough said.” (Alan Weiss)
