Susan Scott

Our careers, our companies, our relationships, and indeed our very lives succeed or fail, gradually, then suddenly, one conversation at a time.

A leader’s job is to engineer epiphanies through conversations that reveal we are capable of original thought. Intelligent, spirited conversations that provide clarity and impetus for change.

o review the three ideas:

1. Our careers, our companies, our relationships, and our very lives succeed or fail, gradually, then suddenly, one conversation at a time.

. The conversation is the relationship.

3. All conversations are with myself, and sometimes they involve other people

When we were children, we absorbed the beliefs, opinions, and attitudes of our parents and teachers.

At some point, our beliefs morphed into truths

after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them up from the strangest places, and if they appear once, we can live a whole lifetime by them, regardless of the unhappiness and difficulty they may later bring

after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them up from the strangest places, and if they appear once, we can live a whole lifetime by them, regardless of the unhappiness and difficulty they may later bring

Are my beliefs working for me, for my company, for my team, for my family?

my beliefs shaping my life, my career, my relationships? Are they getting the results I want, the results others want? Am I and are others happy as a result of my beliefs, my “truths”? Have any of my strongly held beliefs resulted in a negative “suddenly”? What truths am I adopting because I agree with them and what truths am I deflecting or ignoring because they don’t fit with my world view?