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To Unlock Success: Make Overcome Your Reality

Philip A. Christensen
3 min readJun 3, 2024

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How To Unlock Your Team’s Best Ideas Uncommonly; Life; Life Lessons; Mindset; Self Improvement; Leadership Development

This Has to Stop

I’ve seen this so many times. I know you have too.

Manager: “Does anyone have any ideas?”

Employee: “I think we could do X.”

Manager: “Great, I was thinking we should do Y.”

Employee: …sure (indistinct sound).

This is the real reason why your team isn’t coming up with new ideas when everyone else is. This is why meetings don’t work; they call it “mindstorming” or team building.

The truth is, your team has plenty of ideas — they just know you won’t listen.

A Hard Truth for All Leaders:

  • You do not have to save the day.
  • You do not have to come up with all the ideas.
  • You do not need to have the final say.

What You Should Do:

  1. Be present and sincerely listen to others’ ideas.
  2. Build on others’ ideas to create stronger suggestions.

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Philip A. Christensen
Philip A. Christensen

Written by Philip A. Christensen

Author and coach, I write for ambitious solopreneurs, creative freelancers, and overwhelmed leaders who want to know how to deal with their self-sabotage.

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