Scott Monty

Simplicity Itself

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"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." ― Oscar Wilde, 1891<br />
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Last week, we talked about <a href="https://scottmonty.substack.com/p/when-fear-works-and-when-it-doesnt">fear</a> and how <a href="https://scottmonty.substack.com/p/when-fear-works-and-when-it-doesnt">leadership works better with inspiration than intimidation</a>.<br />
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And our paying subscribers read about physical and organizational structures, what's spoken and unspoken, and that each affect how a leader is viewed.<br />
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The connection between these two topics? How we treat others in our lives, whether they're employees, colleagues, friends, or family.<br />
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None of this is rocket science. It comes down to maxims we've heard for millennia: the Golden Rule, listening more than speaking, and long-term thinking.<br />
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These are some of the hallmarks of great leaders.<br />
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But there's another ability of great leaders that's worth spending some time thinking about. Along with having good communications skills, they're usually good strategists.<br />
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What lies at the intersection between these two strengths is a true talent:<br />
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<b>Making the complex seem simple.</b><br />
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There's great power in simplicity:<br />
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<li>When you boil down a complicated problem to its core, you can help other people address an issue. </li>
<li>When you make a user experience more intuitive, it results in more widespread adoption.</li>
<li>When you use language that people can understand without pulling out a dictionary, people will trust and like you more.</li>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"More and more, informal language is building trust, not destroying it." </span></i></div>
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<i>― Ron Tite, 2019 (<a href="https://amzn.to/2VqaVr2">Think Do Say</a>)</i></div>
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We've got a temptation to make things more complex than simple. Part of it is a self-preservation mechanism: like academics who use unnecessarily flowery language in peer-reviewed journals, it's a matter of elevating ourselves to seem smarter and "own" the topic.<br />
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But when you're trying to motivate a workforce, inform investors, or connect with customers, they have one simple request: eschew obfuscation.<br />
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That is, just tell me what you do, plain and simple.<br />
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I was fortunate to serve fairly closely with a CEO whose style was all about simplicity. Not in a dumbed-down way, but in a friendly, collaborative sort of way. He ensured that everyone understood the company's mission and how they fit into the complex matrix of a global organization.<br />
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He knew that it was his job to meet employees where they were – physically, and philosophically – and bring them to where he wanted them to go.<br />
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That CEO was Alan Mulally, and his strategic plan for Ford Motor Company was called "<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/scottmonty/one-ford-strategy">One Ford</a>." It was quite simple: One Team, One Plan, One Goal – an exciting and viable Ford delivering profitable growth for all.<br />
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Sure, the details below each section made it a little longer. But it was in plain language that fit on an I.D. card. Everyone could recite it, because the message was so simple, and because Alan spent so much time repeating it to everyone.<br />
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Not too long ago, Alan told me, <i>"If you want to be successful, you have to have a plan, and you have to communicate the plan." </i><br />
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Alan knew that simple communication was the most effective. How refreshing when everything else around us is complicated.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">“One should use common words to say uncommon things.”  </span></i></div>
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<i>– Arthur Schopenhauer, 1818</i></div>
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In addition to the importance of simplicity and clarity in your communication, it also helps to be able to address challenges and obstacles the same way. When you're mired in the day-to-day details of running your business, sometimes it can be difficult to see the bigger picture.<br />
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This is why some leaders like to bring in consultants with an outside perspective. A fresh look from someone with a different set of experiences can be a real eye-opener.<br />
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This is the kind of work that I love doing. When a client brings me in, lays all the facts before me, and I have a chance to ask questions, there's a moment when I immediately see how to help them. A true light bulb moment.<br />
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I like to think of such advisory work like dispensing common sense.<br />
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The dilemma is that I can't say that I dispense common sense. Because everyone thinks they have common sense – and indeed they do. But when you're so close to a project or topic, it can be difficult to separate yourself from it enough to get the wider picture or <a href="https://scottmonty.substack.com/p/innovation-by-perspective">a different perspective</a>.<br />
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Here's a perfect example of how this played out between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men":<br />
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“So, Watson,” said he, suddenly, “you do not propose to invest in South African securities?”<br />
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I gave a start of astonishment. Accustomed as I was to Holmes’s curious faculties, this sudden intrusion into my most intimate thoughts was utterly inexplicable.<br />
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“How on earth do you know that?” I asked.<br />
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He wheeled round upon his stool, with a steaming test-tube in his hand and a gleam of amusement in his deep-set eyes.<br />
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“Now, Watson, confess yourself utterly taken aback,” said he.<br />
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“I am.”<br />
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“I ought to make you sign a paper to that effect.”<br />
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“Why?”<br />
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“Because in five minutes you will say that it is all so absurdly simple.”<br />
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“I am sure that I shall say nothing of the kind.”<br />
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“You see, my dear Watson”—he propped his test tube in the rack and began to lecture with the air of a professor addressing his class—“it is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one’s audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though possibly a meretricious, effect. Now, it was not really difficult, by an inspection of the groove between your left forefinger and thumb, to feel sure that you did not propose to invest your small capital in the goldfields.”<br />
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“I see no connection.”<br />
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“Very likely not; but I can quickly show you a close connection. Here are the missing links of the very simple chain: 1. You had chalk between your left finger and thumb when you returned from the club last night. 2. You put chalk there when you play billiards to steady the cue. 3. You never play billiards except with Thurston. 4. You told me four weeks ago that Thurston had an option on some South African property which would expire in a month, and which he desired you to share with him. 5. Your chequebook is locked in my drawer, and you have not asked for the key. 6. You do not propose to invest your money in this manner.”<br />
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“How absurdly simple!” I cried.<br />
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“Quite so!” said he, a little nettled. “Every problem becomes very childish when once it is explained to you.</blockquote>
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There's the opportunity: to bring the simple magic that your work does, without devaluing what you do by revealing the methodology. Even some 2,000 years ago, Tacitus knew that everything unknown is thought to be amazing:<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"Omne ignotum pro magnifico est." </span></i></div>
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<i>― Tacitus, c. 120</i></div>
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What if you could amaze people with simplicity?<br />
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People don't expect the common and simple these days.<br />
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They don't expect a handwritten note when they're barraged with emails and text messages.<br />
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They don't expect that you'll remember their name when they're required to give three forms of I.D. to make a deposit at the bank.<br />
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Sometimes, that's all it takes.<br />
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Use language they can relate to. Remember their name. Just say hello.<br />
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It really is that simple.<br />
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Simplicity Itself

Off the Greenland Coast Under the Midnight Sun by William J. Bradford, 1873 (public domain - Wikimedia Commons) "I adore simple...

When Fear Works ― and When It Doesn't

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<i><b>"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears."</b> ― La Rochefoucauld, 1664</i><br />
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Have you ever felt real fear?<br />
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Like the kind of fear that gives you a palpable sense of dread? That makes your chest tighten and your heart pound?<br />
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I remember feeling like that when I first visited a lake in New Hampshire when I was 14 years old.<br />
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Growing up in Connecticut, I was fortunate to have a backyard pool. We used to host YMCA-taught swimming lessons each summer for our friends and neighbors. I remember the pride I had as I received a patch for the level I completed every year: Polliwog, Guppy, Minnow, Fish, Flying Fish, and ultimately, Shark.<br />
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By the end of each day, we'd be as wrinkled as prunes and our lungs would ache from all the time spent underwater. But we were expert swimmers, which made us even more brave when we went to the beach on Cape Cod or Newport later in the summer.<br />
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So when I first had the chance to head up to Lake Winnipesaukee for a week with a friend, I was looking forward to more time in the water, including water skiing and boating ― something impossible in a pool.<br />
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As I dipped my toes into the cool water on the edge of the lake, I enjoyed the soft sand and gravel between my toes. Located in the middle of New Hampshire, the lake is fed by runoff from the White Mountains, which means it's fairly chilly. I gradually got used to it and was finally able to get my entire body submerged.<br />
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I brought a snorkeling mask along with me, so I put it on and dove down to examine the stones and gravel as it sloped up toward the beach. But then I did something that didn't prepare me for what came next.<br />
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Remember, I had only explored the great Underwater World of My Pool until this time.<br />
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I turned my head around and looked out into the center of the lake with my mask. The dark green, somewhat murky water trailed off into nothingness, such that I couldn't see anything but the vast expanse that lay in front of me.<br />
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At that moment, I felt that tightening ― that sense of horror ― and immediately burst to the surface. Simply put, I was freaked. Out.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>― Epictetus, c. 100</i></span></div>
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Where does that sense of terror come from?<br />
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It's certainly within our genetic programming to avoid danger. The old "fight or flight" response is well documented throughout the animal species.<br />
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But that kind of irrational response to nothing: what is that?<br />
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I think it's a combination of two powerful forces at work ― two forces that are beyond our command:<br />
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We fear the <b>unknown</b> and we fear <b>what we can't control</b>.<br />
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How positively and uniquely human is that?<br />
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Humans have been blessed with consciousness, such that we know there are things we don't know (well, most of us, anyway). We're aware that there is more out there that may be looming, waiting for us. And it is terrifying.<br />
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In a situation similar to the lake-diving incident, I recall the first time I was on a cruise ship and we were out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.<br />
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I stepped onto the deck one evening close to midnight, and looked out into the distance. It was a cloudy night, so there were no stars, no moon, no ambient light. It was pitch black and I was looking into nothingness. And it was terrifying to me.<br />
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It was that same sense of dread, feeling enveloped by the unknown. In this case, fear was borne not through the presence of something, but the absence of it.<br />
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Last week, we talked about death (some charming topics lately, eh?). There's been a natural connection between fear and death for as long as humans have been aware of their mortality.<br />
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If you look at all of the anti-aging products and services available, it's clear that our desire is to prolong our lives for as long as possible.<br />
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<i><b>"The thing I fear most is fear… Those who are in pressing fear of losing their property, of being exiled, of being subjugated, live in constant anguish, losing even the capacity to drink, eat, and rest; whereas the poor, the exiles, and the slaves often live as joyfully as other men. And so many people who, unable to endure the pangs of fear, have hanged themselves, drowned themselves, or leaped to their death, have taught us well that fear is even more unwelcome and unbearable than death itself."</b></i> </blockquote>
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<i>― Michel de Montaigne, 1580</i></div>
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Yes, we know humans fear death ― more recently <a href="https://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2018/10/16/americas-top-fears-2018/">government corruption has topped the list</a> ― but the manner of death that people commonly fear is interesting.<br />
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I'm thinking shark attacks and airplane crashes.<br />
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Both scary things, right? But also both unlikely things.<br />
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I could share all of the available statistics on each of these things to show how rare they are and how silly it is to be concerned about them, from a rational standpoint. But it wouldn't matter. Why not?<br />
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Because regardless of how uncommon these events are, they both have something in common: they're out of our control.<br />
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You have no control over when or where the great white shark does its hunting. When you're in a metal tube, hurtling through the air at 600 mph six miles above the earth's surface, you can't determine what will happen.<br />
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At the same time, why worry about it? If you can't do anything to change it, it's wasted energy.<br />
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And as Montaigne knew, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/may/17/montaigne-philosophy-death">when your fears of death consume you, you can't enjoy life</a>.<br />
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When placed in situations with grizzly bears, mean horses or gunfighters, Theodore Roosevelt was afraid at first. And then, as he wrote in his Autobiography he discovered that he could become fearless through practice: "by acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid."<br />
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It's another way of saying "fake it 'til you make it," but TR was spot on: practice the skills you want to grow.<br />
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<i><b>"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." </b></i></div>
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<i>― Mark Twain, 1894</i></div>
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What about the things you do have control over?<br />
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We all like to think that we have some semblance of control over our government (although lately, that's up for debate). Elections give us the opportunity to express our desires, hopes, fears and outrages.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>"Fear itself these days is America's top-selling consumer product, available 24-7 as a mobile app with color-coded pop-ups in all shades of the paranoid rainbow." </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>― Lewis H. Lapham, 2017</i></span></div>
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If you've been following along over the last few years, you may have noticed politicians ― typically on one side of the spectrum ― who make it their business to make you afraid and angry.<br />
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Why? There's power in fear. And when you have power, you can control things ― or at least, that's the perception. And by gaining more control, you can lessen some of your own fears.<br />
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How are you motivating your team?<br />
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In <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2wqxC3W">Only the Paranoid Survive</a></i> (1996), the late Intel executive Andrew Grove wrote about creating a passion for winning in the marketplace, and suggested that "fear plays a major role in maintaining such passion."<br />
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While no one wants to be part of a losing team, the way Grove articulated it was akin to creating a set of neuroses among employees: "fear of competition, fear of bankruptcy, fear of being wrong, and fear of losing." He seemed to focus only on the threats and weaknesses in the classic SWOT analysis.<br />
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This is almost as if to invite a corps of Cassandras to your team. If you recall from mythology, Cassandra was the Chicken Little of Troy: her constant (accurate) fears and predictions of the future were dismissed by all.<br />
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It's natural to be wary of threats and changes to the environment around us. But to live and operate in abject fear is destructive to morale.<br />
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Charles Schwab knew how to deal with people. In the classic <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2PaRWNs">How to Win Friends and Influence People</a></i> (1936), Dale Carnegie recalls Schwab's approach:<br />
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<b><i>"I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among the men to be the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement."</i></b><br />
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The world can be a scary place, certainly. It can also be a hopeful, helpful place. It depends on where you put your attention.<br />
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<i>Related: <a href="https://www.scottmonty.com/2018/11/leading-with-enthusiasm-not-fear.html">Leading with Enthusiasm, not Fear</a></i><br />
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