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December,
2006 Welcome
to Leadership Hand™, a monthly e-newsletter To ensure receipt, please white-list our address by adding "Info@" plus our domain name to your e-mail address book. 1. The Popeye
Defense: I Yam What I Yam I have run smack into what I call The Popeye Defense. Remember the old cartoon about the spinach-swilling sailor? He loudly proclaimed, "I yam what I yam" followed by throaty, self-delighted laughter: "Ug, ug, ug." What I also hear is the silent statement, "I don't know how to do it differently. And do it consistent with a value that's important to me." The Popeye Defense.
Where do you use it? Can you hear what's not said? Beth Hand © Copyright 2007, Beth Hand. Beth Hand, MBA helps leaders increase their effectiveness and satisfaction, now and for the future. She can be reached at (+1) 703.820.8074 or via her website www.leadershiphand.com. 2. Reprint Permission This is a copyrighted publication. You are welcome to reprint an issue on a non-exclusive basis provided you:
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Here
we are--a manager tapped by the organization as part of the future
senior leadership, and I--engaged in a coaching conversation. I'm
challenging the manager to try a new perspective and behavior that
he agrees would be beneficial. Suddenly, there it is… "But
that's not me," he might say, or "I can't" or "If
I do that, then people will think I'm too soft" or "too
this or that." |
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