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The Double Win

The Upside of an Experimental Mindset

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Management, Intentionality, Selfdevelopment, Education, Teamleadership, Personaldevelopment, Productivity, Self-improvement, Business, Achievement, Influence, Selfleadership, Leadership

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Leaders create change. The problem is that not everybody wants change. You’ve probably faced the frustration of having your team be less than enthusiastic about a new initiative. That’s when you hear all the familiar lines: “We tried that before.” “It’ll cost too much.” “Why do we need this, anyway?” It’s exhausting. But there is hope! Here’s an easy way to get people onboard with a new initiative. It’s so simple, you’ll wonder you you haven’t thought of it before now. Here it is: When introducing any change, from procedures or policies up to and including new product releases, ask people to think of it as an experiment. Hold on! We know that sounds either simplistic or downright dangerous, but there’s a real logic behind it. And? It really works. We’ve used it dozens of times, both when we find ourselves procrastinating on personal change, and even when we launched one of our most successful products. Try this yourself, and you’ll instantly overcome resistance and gain buy-in for your change initiatives. You’ll finally escape the purgatory of endless discussion about a new idea and quickly move to action. This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by The LeaderScore Assessment, a simple tool to evaluate the health of your leadership. Find out more at leadto.win/leaderscore. TEXT A FRIEND If this episode strikes home with you, why not text the link to a friend? Failure is a universal experience, and someone you know could probably benefit from this content. While you’re at it, we’d love to hear from you too. Would you leave a review on iTunes? Good, bad, or indifferent. We’d love to hear what you think. We read all of your comments, and they really do help us make the show better! Thanks so much. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by the Leader Score Assessment, a simple tool to evaluate the health of your leadership.

0:08.0

Find out more at lead to.win slash leader score.

0:21.0

Hi I'm Michael Hyatt and this is lead to win the weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life. And in this episode we're talking about how to develop an experimental mindset and why that's important.

0:30.0

Meghahat Miller's on Parental Leave. She's home with her newly adopted daughter

0:37.0

Naomi. She'll be back shortly, but today we're going to help you solve a problem

0:40.7

every leader faces resistance to change.

0:45.0

And I'm joined as always by Larry Wilson.

0:47.4

Hey, Larry.

0:48.4

Hey, you are right, every leader faces this.

0:51.0

And if you've been in any leadership situation you've run up against this and

0:55.7

how many times do you hear the same old things right right we've always done it this way

1:05.7

it'll cost too much. It's not worth it. You know, so and so is never going to go along with this. We can't change. I would do it, but they won't.

1:11.3

And then you get the stall tactics right slow rolling it and

1:17.6

undermining or just outright ignoring the things that you try to implement. So this is a pain in the neck.

1:25.6

It is a pain in the neck and I think change is oftentimes hard to sell to ourselves.

1:31.0

So regardless I was thinking about a change that we implemented

1:36.7

about two and a half years ago that revolutionized our business, but at the time it

1:42.1

didn't seem that significant and it really

1:44.4

came about as a result of me hating email. I was frustrated with the email

1:50.4

especially when I was trying to collaborate with the team.

1:53.0

I mean, because you forward the email to your teammates, and then you kind of lose the thread,

1:57.1

and oh, I should have included somebody else, and it's just a mess.

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