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Why You Can't Leave Personal Out of Business

Name: Why You Can't Leave Personal Out of Business
Uploaded: 2024-06-24T07:30:15+00:00
Duration: 1 min 41 s
Channel: Tina Corner Stolz
Description: In this monologue, the speaker argues that business leaders cannot separate their personal identity from their professional role. Using a mirror…

24 Jun 2024 · 2 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that business leaders cannot separate their personal identity from their professional role. Using a mirror metaphor, she illustrates that viewing oneself as two halves—personal (left) and business (right)—and only bringing the business half into meetings leaves the individual incomplete and hampers effectiveness. She defines the personal side as the individual’s “hat,” encompassing how they show up, their emotions, and life impacts, and stresses that the whole‑person must be present for meetings and group dynamics to work. The core claim is that personal impacts are inseparable from business actions for CEOs, presidents, and owners, and ignoring them undermines group performance.

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I had someone illustrate this once to me. And so if you can visualize looking at yourself in the mirror, here's this whole person right there in the mirror. And if you don't allow personal to be incorporated into your meetings, then basically what you're saying to that person that you're seeing in the mirror is split yourself down the middle. And the right side is your business side and the left side is your personal side. And the only side that you're taking to the meeting is your right side, the business side. You're leaving the personal outside the door, at home, in the car, whatever it is, and only half of that person is really in the meeting. They aren't separate. You can't separate the personal impacts that happen to an individual, in this case the business owner, the leader, the CEO, the president, etc., separately from their business. Because we don't operate that way. We're a whole person, right? So the group can't just deal with this right half and be effective at it. As a member, you can't really just deal with this right half and be effective. It's the whole piece. So the personal side, which we probably should define, that is your hat of you, the individual. Not the hat of I'm the business owner and this is my company or companies, but over here, here's me and how I show up within that. Right? And, and therefore, that's why you can't ignore the personal side. It's the whole.