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In the meantime, you can ponder this quote:
“The last, best experience that anyone has anywhere becomes the minimum expectation for the experiences they want everywhere.”
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The retreat is both a laboratory and ultimate safe space, one designed to let you “try on for size” unfamiliar, nerve-wracking leadership styles and get real-time feedback on the efficacy of each approach. It’s both familiar and intensely challenging. It’s summer camp, or a new school, or the first day at a new job, except that this time there’s nothing you could do that would screw it up.
When we take the time to reflect, we open the door to uncovering hidden insights that can help us to make better decisions in the future.
In practical terms, I use the mantra as a sort of verbal touchstone during meetings, planning sessions, and even heads-down work. Its wry inversion of negativity reliably makes people chuckle when I invoke it during challenging conversations, and I’ve learned that saying it aloud can diffuse tense moments and break through impasses.