relationships are the key to the team approach

Relationship Tip #7:

Eliminate Blind Spots! How are blind spots affecting your team? Post this list of famous blind spots somewhere visible to your team to remind them that we can miss opportunities when we are blind to them. Discuss what opportunities your team could be missing regularly due to blind spots:

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H Duell, US Patent Office, 1899
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?' Harry Warner, Warner Bros. 1927
"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote" Grover Cleveland, 1905
"Ruth made a big mistake when he gave up pitching" Tris Speaker, 1921

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