Looking from the outside in, I knew this guy was a lot of fun to be around and had a reputation for never losing his cool in a very high stress, deadline riddled position. But what else? I asked my husband why he’d miss him, and he replied,
But why? I pressed. This is what he said:
There had to be more. So I pressed again, What else?
He listens well, and if he doesn’t get it (i.e. whatever we’re trying to explain to him) he says so and doesn’t pretend that he does.”
I had to agree that summed it up pretty well.
Rosa Say, author of Managing with Aloha, Bringing Hawaii’s Universal Values to the Art of Business and the Talking Story blog.
Rosa is founder and head coach of Say Leadership Coaching, a company dedicated to bringing nobility to the working arts of management and leadership.
Rosa’s Previous Thursday Column was: How to Capture an Expert’s Value: 12 Tips.
