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Board Feedback: How to Respond to Your Advisors
Last week, I wrote about the challenges of receiving feedback from your team. Today, I want to talk about a different kind of feedback: the kind that comes from your trusted advisors. The clients who inspired this post are the ones who have boards. But the advice applies to any company with any kind of advisors.
How to Get Better at Receiving Feedback
Leading a business takes courage. It also requires you to balance being vulnerable and having a thick skin. Every quarter, we solicit feedback from our consulting team. And every quarter, we go through the somewhat painful exercise of reviewing that feedback. This review forces our leadership team to hear things that do not feel great to hear. But it’s one of the most important things we can do to keep evolving the company.
Letting Go of Mental Baggage: Be a Goldfish
Being a goldfish means living without baggage. You might get upset. But then you get over it. You focus on moving forward and what’s ahead. Every day—or maybe 100 times a day—you reset. It sounds naive. But it’s a surprising prescription for happiness.
10 Year Goals Are the New Annual Planning
Maybe it’s the long, gray days. Maybe it’s the holiday season. But I’ve found myself reflecting on the past recently. Every day, there’s more past to look back on. I’ve accomplished a lot in my five-ish decades so far. I’m proud of what I’ve done. Even the mistakes have turned into valuable life lessons.
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