Day 7 - Quotes and Thoughts
Building lasting relationships requires daily understanding, constructive feedback, and discipline. A strong team is built on trust, not just work relationships, so effective leaders bridge gaps to prevent long-term conflicts.
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Long-term relationships are both a) intrinsically gratifying and b) efficient, and should be intentionally built. Turnover requires re-training and therefore creates setbacks. - Ray Dalio (Principles)
Topics: relationship, mindset
Topics: relationship, mindset
- It is not difficult to establish a relationship but hard to build and maintain the long-term one.
- A long-term relationship requires the desire of seeking the understanding of each other as well as practicing such routine day by day.
- A long-term relationship also requires the will of practicing the constructive feedback loop from each other.
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They ultimately framed their work around a series of exercises in three critical disciplines: The Discipline of Perception (how we see and perceive the world around us) The Discipline of Action (the decisions and actions we take—and to what end) The Discipline of Will (how we deal with the things we cannot change, attain clear and convincing judgment, and come to a true understanding of our place in the world). - Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman (The Daily Stoic)
Topics: mindset, life
Topics: mindset, life
- Being disciplined is not just about the theoretical knowledge, but also your will that transforms such knowledge into actions and practice. You don't become disciplined just because of judgements of people around yourself. Instead, that needs to be your reasoned choice to be disciplined.
- Being disciplined is not just about following rules or routines that you set out, but also preparing your mentality or mindset to deal with sudden things that come to you.
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Just because people work together day to day they will not necessarily trust each other with sensitive information (such as a desire to change jobs, or resentment about how a manager or peer behaves), nor turn to them in crisis. - Daniel Goleman (Emotional Intelligence)
Topics: relationship, team management, psychology, leadership
Topics: relationship, team management, psychology, leadership
- The work relationship is not always equivalent to the actual relationship between two individuals. This is because there are factors constructing or affecting the work relationship such as the duty and responsibilities of an individual. This is not good for the long-term run because an effective, productive, and robust team is built on trust.
- Hence, as an effective leader, you will need to understand your team members well enough to identify the gap of the relationship between team members and to have actions that help to bridge the gap. This will help to minimise the chance of having the relationship conflict in the long-term run.