454: Eliminate Difficult Conversations Using the Disconnect Principle with Ann Latham
Read to Lead Podcast
Jeff Brown
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Last year when my book was released, I was invited shortly after to speak to a group at LinkedIn. LinkedIn staff were kicking off year two of their book club, and had chosen to do so with Read to Lead. My invitation to join that group came from Dan Horowitz, LinkedIn’s senior director of LinkedIn […]
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 454. |
| 0:12.7 | What's sad here is when you think about most management responsibilities, they are things that you do to people or that you can easily do two people if you're not |
| 0:21.7 | careful. Things like setting expectations. If you set the expectations for someone, you're doing |
| 0:27.1 | that to them. The way we traditionally think about feedback, accountability, and performance management |
| 0:32.5 | prevents us from being the kind of human beings we want to be. Instead of mastering difficult conversations, |
| 0:39.0 | we should instead try to eliminate them using what's called the disconnect principle. |
| 0:43.9 | Hi, I'm Jeff Brown, and this is the Read to Lead podcast, the podcast that's dedicated to |
| 0:48.3 | your personal and professional growth. I began this podcast nearly 9.5 years ago because |
| 0:53.7 | I believe that if you want to |
| 0:55.3 | achieve true success in your business and in your life, that intentional and consistent reading |
| 0:59.4 | is a must. That's step one. Step two, putting what you read and learn into action. We'll talk more |
| 1:05.0 | about that in just a moment. The Read to Lead podcast is not only going to help you narrow your |
| 1:09.3 | reading list, but bring you key insights and main ideas from today's most successful and inspiring authors, and that person |
| 1:15.1 | today is author Anne Latham. |
| 1:17.8 | She's written a book called The Disconnect Principle, Eliminate Difficult Conversations with |
| 1:22.6 | Clarity and Empathy. |
| 1:24.2 | I'll be asking Anne to share how you can all but eliminate difficult conversations, |
| 1:28.4 | what to do about the assumptions we so often make about other people, how the disconnect |
| 1:33.3 | principle ensures you're doing with and not doing to in your relationships, and lots more. |
| 1:38.7 | If you have difficulty effectively capturing your notes, knowing what to write and how much, |
| 1:43.2 | and find they're often of little or no use to you later, or your notes are siloed inside various note capture apps and hard to call upon when you need them, or you gather other people's thoughts through the content you consume for learning and growth, but they never seem to evolve into ideas all your own. You have numerous notebooks filled with handwritten notes that are difficult to organize |
| 2:00.9 | with ideas among them that are impossible to connect, or you can't seem to ever get to creating |
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