Win With Decency: How to Use Your Better Angels for Better Business
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How can you prepare for a future, where the usefulness of a skill begins to depreciate as soon as you learn it? How can you future-proof your career when half of the jobs today won't be on a payroll in two decades? Welcome to the Era of Obsolescence and the Age of Unknowability. Win With Decency addresses these questions and more wi
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Win With Decency - Douglass and Lisa-Marie Hatcher
PREFACE
MAKING THE BUSINESS CASE FOR DECENCY
This book makes the business case for decency. It’s the kind of decency that for many companies has proven to yield dividends—dividends that include greater employee retention, increased customer loyalty, higher earnings, more sales, faster innovation, better information-sharing, more streamlined communication, stronger trust, heightened brand awareness, enviable brand reputation, and overall greater growth and scale.
That’s a boatload of dividends.
So, while you catch your breath, we’ll talk for a minute about how this book was born. Win With Decency was inspired by our work in the business storytelling space, where we train business leaders in the art and science of making things matter and moving people to act. In our workshops, we teach that certain human qualities are the beating heart of business storytelling.
Those qualities are humility, empathy, and vulnerability. Humility allows you to put your audience first, empathy puts you in your audience’s shoes, and vulnerability creates a connection with your audience. Taken together, these qualities help you humanize your content and make it relatable and actionable. But over the course of teaching our workshops and interacting with our participants, we began to wonder if the qualities of humility, empathy, and vulnerability were unique to business storytelling or if they had other applications for business success.
Looking for answers, we put on our research caps and began to curate content around these three cornerstone qualities of business storytelling. We found success stories and insights shared by captains of industry and thought leaders such as Steve Jobs (founder and former CEO of Apple), Bill Taylor (co-founder of Fast Company), Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft), Dr. Brené Brown (professor and author), and many others.
Not surprisingly, when examining these stories and insights, we ran across two additional human qualities that had positive applications for business. These two qualities were gratitude and generosity. So, then there were five! Humility, empathy, vulnerability, gratitude and generosity: human qualities that, for us, are foundational for decency. We discovered that these five qualities, often associated with being a better person, are also often associated with business growth, brand differentiation, and competitive advantage.
Now that we had our list of five qualities and supporting business cases, we wanted to tie them together under one theme. We thought about virtuous competition, but that just didn’t seem to be a big enough umbrella to cover it. What really seemed to bring everything together was this idea of decency as a business strategy for winning in both the workplace and the marketplace.
And for us, the qualities driving that decency are our better angels. Win With Decency: How to Use Your Better Angels for Better Business is a collection of real-world success stories combined with our own insights. We show you how to transform the five human qualities of humility, empathy, vulnerability, gratitude, and generosity into the Win With Decency skills you need to lead and succeed in the 2020s and beyond.
INTRODUCTION
WELCOME TO THE
ERA OF OBSOLESCENCE AND THE AGE OF UNKNOWABILITY
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew.²
—Abraham Lincoln
Things are moving so fast you can almost feel the earth shifting beneath your feet. We’re at the tail end of a technological wave driven by the internet and digital connectivity. At the same time, we find ourselves on the threshold of the 2020s, where we are on the cusp of a new technological wave—one that will be driven by 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Robotics, various Virtual Realities, 3D Printing, and much more. We’re entering a time where if you can dream it, you can create it.
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Nearly every aspect of how we live, work, and play is poised for dramatic change. Imagine the following: downloading a two-hour HD movie in a matter of seconds; receiving world-class healthcare treatments remotely through robotics; managing supply-chains where errors, inefficiencies, and dangers are immediately flagged and corrected; living in smart cities with less traffic congestion, more efficient energy sources, and yes—in time—driverless cars; and experiencing retail that’s immersive, hyper-customized, and predictive.
How we go about our daily lives will undergo massive shifts. The global economy is positioned for change as well. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projections alone are pretty staggering. One research company forecasts that this wave of new networks and associated technologies could add up to $17 trillion to the global GDP by 2035. That’s more than $1 trillion added to the global GDP every year for the next decade and a half.³
So, what does any of this have to do with the Win With Decency strategy? Well, one of the cornerstones of our approach is continuous learning. Continuous learning allows you to be both defensive and offensive in a fast-changing future filled with huge unknowns. By defensive, we mean protecting yourself against blind spots and being disrupted.