From the course: Overcoming Obstacles and Building Team Resilience
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The Aluminum Can Theory
From the course: Overcoming Obstacles and Building Team Resilience
The Aluminum Can Theory
- The next essential element of resilient teams is a deep mutual respect. And I love this quote by Karl Menninger about mutual respect, 'cause it kind of says it all for me, that "Loyalty means not that I agree with everything you say or that I believe you're always right. Loyalty means that we share a common ideal and that regardless of minor differences, we strive for it shoulder to shoulder, confident in one of those good faith trust, constancy, and affection." Isn't that the best? Now, if you continue to build that platform of trust and respect for your team where you always know at a deep level you have one another's back, you can have all these little discussions and arguments on the surface and they don't mean anything if you've built that foundation of trust and respect. How do we do that? Well, first of all, you always have to remember the aluminum can theory. Now that's an Alan Brunacini-ism. Alan Brunacini…
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