A few months ago, while waiting at the gate for a flight, I couldn’t help but notice a gate agent making some woman unpack and repack and unpack and repack her expandable carry-on suitcase because it was too wide to fit into the measuring “box” for carry-on luggage.
As we come out of the economic crisis resulting from the pandemic, use the opportunity to redesign your group to take advantage of OODA loop thinking.
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the danger of painting yourself into a corner when negotiating.
You’re probably familiar, if not personally, then at least conceptually, with the notion of “F.U. money” – having enough money that you can simply walk away.
The problem, which can hardly ever be seen from inside the situational loop, is that you want, even need, to be liked. “Am I pushing too hard?” “What will they think?”
Remind yourself that, as you watch this today and three weeks from today when you remember to pull out your get out of jail free card, that physicians like you are sitting in their cells today and that you don’t want to join them.
As I always say, think like a carpenter and measure twice (or even thrice), vetting each deal carefully with healthcare counsel, before cutting once, cutting your own neck, that is.
The problem, which can hardly ever be seen from inside the situational loop, is that you want, even need, to be liked. “Am I pushing too hard?” “What will they think?”
The reality is that we all construct and use models. Often, these are mental models, concepts or representations about how the world works.
Your local newspaper and even that national one that claims to print everything that’s fit to be printed is telling you that the world as you know it is over. It probably is.