Clara Nafria

Identifying and getting to know your resistance, especially the parts that get triggered and stop you in your tracks, is how you’ll begin to go beyond what you thought was possible, and appreciate and relate to yourself more fully. 

Note taking is building a relationship with a future version of yourself.

You need to be unhappy with the status quo, have an exciting vision for the future, and determine practical and concrete first steps. That’s what scores of people, myself included, identify when we want to change something. 

In the media world, the counterpart is:

1. Content-market fit, i.e. making something that people want


2. Community participation, i.e. fostering engagement and participation by an audience


3. Community ownership, i.e. ceding ownership and control to a community

Summary.   

Transformational leaders are exceptional communicators. In this piece, the author outlines four communication strategies to help motivate and inspire your team: 1) Use short words to talk about hard things. 2) Choose sticky metaphors to reinforce key concepts. 3) Humanize data to create value. 4). Make mission your mantra to align