<div style="display:inline;float:right;margin-left:1em"><g:plusone href="https://strategyexecutioninstitute.com/?p=1272"></g:plusone></div>
<div style="display:inline;float:right;margin-left:1em"><g:plusone href="https://strategyexecutioninstitute.com/?p=1272"></g:plusone></div>
{"id":1272,"date":"2013-06-06T00:32:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T00:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2013-06-03T00:38:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T00:38:28","slug":"160-failure-to-communicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"#160 Failure to communicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-25.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div><p>There are times when in spite of my best efforts, I have communication gaps with my co-workers. No matter what I try, I just cannot get thru to them or see their point of view.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a failure if the following is true:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 14px;\">I have made a genuine attempt to overcome communication gaps.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>My creativity is under strain from the effort I am making.<\/li>\n<li>Unless there is a business reason for me to stop, I will keep trying.<\/li>\n<li>I have grown, matured, and evolved in the process.<\/li>\n<li>I have found a third person who will carry my message to the co-worker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This gives us a new metric for measuring communication abilities in leadership situations. The message has to get thru to your co-workers, but you may not be the best person to <em>deliver<\/em> it. Find someone who is more effective. Recognizing that, and executing on that knowledge is also leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Same logic holds true if you have trouble <em>drafting<\/em> or <em>composing<\/em> your message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when in spite of my best efforts, I have communication gaps with my co-workers. No matter what I try, I just cannot get thru to them or see their point of view. This is not a failure if the following is true: I have made a genuine attempt to overcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[17,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}