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Mick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1946 total appearances

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Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

I felt like everything was antiquated and we were telling really good stories from the past and there was never a bridge to today.

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

And so that compelled me to write.

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

So for you speaking out, like what was the compelling reason that said, I've got to put this on paper?

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

I dig that.

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

And you're so right.

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

I mean, today, when we talk about social and political issues, they're everywhere, right?

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

And people are able to

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

maybe I shouldn't say able, people can form their own opinions, right?

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

And so if you're the leader of a corporation, you've got social issues, political issues that can, not saying that purposely, maliciously, but can be divisive because they're in front of us for the first time where before, and I said this in a speech last week, a lot of people don't realize we used to get today's news tomorrow, right?

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

Well, now we get today's news as it happens and it triggers any and everything that we do.

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

So what's your advice actually to the leader that's seeing this for the first time that doesn't understand how the world used to be, where you could take your time and prepare your team message and have a rally around, you know, an idea or a thought where today something happens at lunch and you've got a hundred people that have a hundred different opinions and you as a leader have to control that a

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

Yeah, totally.

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

And Matt, I know you, like I work with

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

Fortune 500, Fortune 100 companies, right?

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

And there are times where there is a social stance or a political stance that as leaders, we have to publicly have a position on, right?

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

Again, I'm not saying that every political or social stance, there needs to be a position, but there are some that do affect major corporations.

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

And I don't think enough people understand that.

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

Talk to us about that when there is, whether it's a social stance, political stance or whatever,

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

And that time is needed as the leader to have it.

Mick Unplugged
Matthew Kohut: Why Your Open Door Policy Isn't Enough

How do you coach leaders to take personal versus business?