"Think of your company as a beach ball. Picture the beach ball as having a red stripe, a green stripe, a yellow stripe, and a blue stripe. Let's imagine you are the president of the company. That's you standing on the blue stripe. The blue stripe is where you live, every day, day after day. If someone asks you what color your company is, you look down around your feet and say, 'My company is blue.'" -- Susan Scott
Problems arise though, because your other departments stand on other stripes. And if everyone simply nods politely, or refuses to acknowledge that there are other colored stripes on the ball, then things stay the same or move backward.
It applies to personal lives as well as business -- we win when we follow that basic tenet of humility... acknowledging that there's more than one view, more than one right way to do things, one that might be a better fit than ours.
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