Clint Gault's Reflections

 What? What?     In Keith Ferrazzi’s Leading Without Authority rule two, he talks about how it is all on you to take on responsibility and take care of your key relationships with others. One of the practices he talks about is the six deadly excuses which are ignorance, laziness, deference, playing the victim, cowardice, and indulgence (Ferrazzi, 2020). These six deadly excuses are an easy way for us to just not do an assignment or project when we face difficulty. Everyone faces difficulties so, avoiding these six deadly excuses makes you stand out among the rest of the pack by pushing through them and not letting these challenges define your outcome. So What?     Ferrazzi describes the six deadly excuses as a way to overcome challenges and not be afraid of confronting conflict when it comes to a project or other work (Ferrazzi, 2020). Ferrazzi describes ignorance as an excuse that is inexcusable because you should know the processes and tasks that your work is ...

What? In Keith Ferrazzi’s Leading Without Authority rule seven his main talking point is how we are responsible for not only ourselves but others around us in terms of maximizing our capabilities. Ferrazzi compares this idea to hosting a giant party in the sense that the best way to ensure that everyone is taken care of is to enlist the help of your teammates in taking care of themselves and others around them (Ferrazzi, 2020). One of the practices in rule seven is to turn gossip into gold in which Ferrazzi describes how negativity, complaining, and venting is poison to cohesion and co-elevation with group members (Ferrazzi, 2020). Instead of bashing others for inefficiencies in their work, there is a golden opportunity that has presented itself to help co-elevate your teammates around you. So What? So why is it important that members or a group leader focus on co-elevating another person in their group? A quote from Ferrazzi in a Forbes article from 2020 caught my eye: " Your j...