You are the LIFT OPERATOR© By Dave Lourdes (www.davelourdes.com)
A simple way you can make sure that all your conversations matter and make a difference is by simply imagining you are a lift operator. Every time you have a conversation with someone your language is like the buttons on a lift.
You can take people up or take people down. When people walk away from a conversation with you, do they feel you have taken them up to the penthouse or down to the basement? In every conversation you have a simple choice; you either HELP people or HARM people. What choice do you make?
More importantly, this also applies when you have conversations about people when they are not around. If someone puts another person down do you join in the take down, or do you have the courage and integrity to hit the emergency stop button and start taking them up?
Tags: Choice, Conversations, Dave Lourdes, Lift Operator
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July 26, 2009 at 6:18 am
Hi Dave, great blog. Seems we are aligned in what we think about business and people. Great inspirational stuff here!My other blog is businessbutterfly.wordpress.com. Thanks for the motivating insights. I really liked the lift analogy.