Whenever you are in a situation, you may get that little voice in your head telling you that things are not entirely right or that something somewhere is not good. Take notice of that voice and do not ignore it. Have faith in your gut feeling. Reading the newspaper or good literature can help you a lot in keeping abreast with what is happening around you.
You could also browse through some sites online that may help you in building your general knowledge. There is no shame in asking the right questions. What a great post! Once that was done, though, we were free to boogie on out of there and live our lives. How naive of him! And I think I could use a big dose of it over the next few years, so thanks for giving me permission, Sonia! Way to stick up for the nice guys and gals. I once interviewed for a very high-level, high-paying sales manager job.
It was a grueling process and finally came down to 2 candidates — me and another guy. In the end they chose him and I was crushed. Giving, sharing…ooey gooey cheery stuff! Naive is probably the polite version. So glad I took the leap of faith and gave up the salery — at least I now sleep at nights and my equilibrium is slowly being restored.
To be irreverent is also naive! It will get you in trouble with lots of people. Specially those snake-like ones in power. It will however set clear that you are not up for BS. Not receiving and not giving.
It will state you are honest through and through. I was accused of being naive enough to make my own software while the world out there uses dozens of developers for a single project. Jet I succeeded! Thanks for a great post! The last couple of weeks have been kind of a meatgrinder, so this was awesome and timely! Yeah, I know her. Just whatI needed to hear. He takes risks, but he backs them up with a lot of research and planning.
He surrounds himself with smart people. It makes plenty of room for curiosity and learning. It makes lots of room for experimentation and thoughtful observation. Great article, Sonia! Empowerment, motivation, mentoring etc.. Stunning levels of guest amabassadors, repeat business, word of mouth. I am a hugely positive person. When times are tight, all that earthy crunchy crap has to go.
Those irritating employees are lucky to have a job at all. I want to make the rules about who gets to be nice or not. My husband and I were just talking about being naive over the weekend…the blessings and sometimes hardships that come with that. Not seeing the potholes…. I used to cringe and now I embrace it as who I am. If we put the human touch back in, it makes a huge difference for everyone involved! Yeah, god bless Tony Hsieh for taking these ideas and making so damned much money with them!
Not that we all need to build billion-dollar companies, there are plenty of other worthwhile goals, but the money helps give that very objective validation. I think I should ask our graphic design dudes to work up an actual permission slip for us that people can print out.
This finally hit me like a ton of bricks about a year ago and work and life has been infinitely more interesting ever since! In fact, all that bad stuff crushes creativity and who wants to live in a grey world.
Amazing post! I can say being naive is the smartest way to go in business. It is about being real, being authentic.. Naive is about seeing the world the way it.. I was very naive when I choose the field of Online PR consulting.
People told me I was not educated in traditional college to do PR. So what.. My major was linguistics. I connected with people. I learned to find the best connection. I love writing and marketing. Well it is all a part of PR world. I believed that I could do it.. I believed in myself and being naive is often not sign of ignorance but sign of strong belief in our life and our talents..
I believe being naive helps to make decisions and have a perfect timing.. Sonia again thank you for writing this.. Way back when, when I had a record store we had 14 reps per week call on us to sell us their wares. Every single one of them or at least 13 because the other one already did wanted to work for Virgin.
Branson treated his staff like people and I even heard one year he hand wrote several thousand Xmas cards to all his employees. Awesome post Sonia. I spent 8 years as a Business Development Manager for a large corporation making gobs of money. Turns out I was just supposed to be selling selling selling selling selling. Did I mention the selling? NO regrets.
My kids, the lawn who knew grass needed so much love?! Happily, both statements were true. So far, being nice has served me pretty well in my own business — and I refuse to work with people or companies that are not also nice.
It seems like the more I think I know, the less it actually works out. If you look at the Wiki definition below for naive, the early use of the word meant natural or innocent, not inept.
What a great way to be and an antidote to the ruthless, selfish values which so often drive the business world today. Great article Sonia, a real thumbs up for all us happy naive, natural, innocent people out there!!!
Sonia: ps. My coworkers told me I was naive thinking this person would do likewise if they found my wallet. I believed otherwise. She hugged me endlessly.
People are so quick to apply limits to everything and everyone especially ourselves , this post will help many of us cast those aside and tap into our inner kid again where anything is possible.
We have a golf company Zoom Boom Golf. And, we believe that the golfer is more important than his equipment and that most golfers already have all the power they need. If anyone has any ideas of how to get this out to the public we are listening. And thank you for describing your time in the corporate world with such honesty and humour.
I have most definitely been there! Did you write this for me? I kind of like being naive and nice. What I love about Branson who was my hero on my backpacking trip around the world is that even though he is naive and nice, he kicks ass. I seem to be the queen of naivete amongst my friends.
They always say something and I respond, following my own logic. Thank you for this artlcle. It made me smile; I guess that in my time in the work world created by others I was also one of those naive ones. Much of the time my approach worked out well in the end, but there were times I leapt into situations that ended messily, which is why I particularly like this:. I guess that if you find yourself on the floor, the only choice is to pick yourself up and start climbing again….
I love your writing about content marketing … and … this post was really really powerful. A friend once said that I had no concept of the impossible … another recently said that I still had an innocence about me [at 51! And a lot of the time fear drives this need to control people …thru systems and structures and rules … and a basic lack of trust in peoples own powerful capacity to imagine different ways of doing things.
Do you define Success or do you let it define you? I also have a fundamental belief in other peoples capacity for the extraordinary … you just gotta give out a helping hand sometimes and believe in them. First of all, this is a brilliantly wrote article and I can see parts of myself in how you described yourself.
Cluelessness certainly has its place, especially as an impetus. One of my favorite musical artists simply decided, with no idea of how the music industry worked, to drive to LA for a record contract. He tells the story of standing in the phone booth with his list of record company phone numbers and looking down at the floor of the booth to see a discarded piece paper there with the same numbers. The naivete got him to that LA phone booth. In other words, there can be a real benefit in not knowing any better.
Trying to balance out corporate mindsets with trying to be there for the employees was like trying to fly a kite in a Class 5 Hurricane.
Unlike you Sonia, I was naive enough that I would have never left on my own because I felt like I was protecting or at least buffering for my employees. I find it kind of ironic that most of them quit after I was laid off.
A lot of layoffs and yet, so rarely of the people who needed to go , and some other dopey political maneuvering as well. Very odd. I once asked a manager a question. I got a lot of yada yada but no answer. I thought it must be the way I am asking the question.
So, I figure I needed resources and then it hit me … Human Resources. I asked human resources and needless to say the whole place turned upside down because I asked a question. Besides all that, in our test runs we have had a higher standard of living than we did at home. Nicer kitchens to cook in man I love a good kitchen.
Nice houses in nice neighborhoods. Posh stereos and luxurious baths. Most folks who need a house-sitter live in nicer houses than we do. And some of them, oddly enough, go on vacation during the nicest weather of the year can you say Vancouver BC in August, instead of being at home in NorCal, at degrees?
And this is one of the many reasons why I love your work, Sonia. Thing is, I expect the most out of me. Sonia, what a great article. Then her had a change of opinion when he saw the plan work.
I now employ a similar strategy in my own business…and it still works. Funny how one can go from being clueless to genius in a short span of years. I want to touch one! Thanks for this great perspective! The corporation I used to work for used The Art of Possibility as part of a leadership training course that I taught there.
I also recently left my corporate job during difficult economic times to pursue my passion! Naive means being able to see the possibilities and believe that you can make it happen. When you look at it, a lot of those that are successful would have been called naive when they started. It is just once they proved that they were right to the skeptics, everyone then thinks it is just common sense. New goal for myself — try to be naive.
James I agree common sense is what we call it naive. Naive nature allows us to see things differently and more clear even. We must act like kids. Have a child within us.. They naive and belief system is so much stronger than we adults do have..
Utterly loved this. It took me back to a place I remember far too well, and then shot me forward hopefully to my not too distant future as I embark on my own. Thanks for all of it! Excellent article! Being naive in this sense means thinking outside of the realm of acceptable business practices or dinosaur thinking depending on how you look at it.
I also liked the fact that the importance of treating your employees well was included. Good managers and owners know that this is hardly naive behavior. But, compassion, kindness and employee appreciation do often get overlooked if it perceived to interfere somehow with the bottom line. One of my fondest memories from a past life in Corporate America is a time when my boss called me into his office and told me I was being too customer oriented.
You are always good for an uplifting post. I think being naive is one of the big reasons that people become so successful with their entrepreneurial ventures. I love my day job. And my new wife. And the role I have in my church. The Richard Branson references brought back some memories — as the band I run were one of the first suppliers that his Virgin Bride company put on their recommended suppliers list.
So she took the idea to Richard Branson. Not only did he run with the idea, he made her VP of Virgin Bride, or an equally senior position. Thanks Paul! And you know what? It worked! When we were bought by another company and I was no longer allowed to do it my way, I jumped and now do my thing my way. You said a great deal. I would throw one word into the mix that has helped me more than any other over the last 30 years in business — Balance!
Like You, I understand the corporate world; but 30 years of experience has shown me the things I have done right and what I would have done differently. Balance is the Key — easy to say…hard to do. Thanks again…. How did we miss each other in the hallway? I love this post. It reminded me of all the people who lined up to feed me my dose of practical, mature advice on leaving Corporate Money World to become an independent artist.
Is it hard? Hell yeah. But the thing I could never give up now is the flexibility I have to try new things. He was a weird, weird dude. My own joy at work, and the beginning of the expansion of my business came when I started to write about things that I really, truly wanted to say but was too afraid to in the corporate setting. I say, please run the world. Thank you for lifting the curtain of false perceptions and providing a brilliant and intelligent explanation of the benefits in being naive.
For example, in a cut-throat business environment, caring emotionally and personally for another human being is considered naive and a sign of weakness. However, I believe caring is powerful. In my opinion, you will be able to see the situation from their point of view.
You are now listening really listening and being proactive and able to meet and exceed their expectations. Yes, you can, but you have to care.
You get your work done so much quicker. You waste your time. In regards to business tactics, legal strategies and negotiations you need to take caring a step further. Being a good listener is a wonderful trait to develop in general, but it can also be a great way to learn more about a new person without giving away too much about yourself.
Ask them questions and show genuine interest in them, rather than being keen to share details about your life straight away. Well-informed, aware people can, of course, still be naive. But their knowledge of the world makes it less likely for them to take things at face value. If your problem is being naive in relationships, look into the psychology behind why people act a certain way.
Being trusting is a beautiful thing. Sure, there are a lot of people in the world with bad in them, but the vast majority of human beings are essentially good. Rather than just pushing that to one side, take a moment to check in with that feeling and think about where it might be coming from. Feeling insecure is a norm, and people usually do feel insecure from time to. In those. You have met the love of your life. People break-ups their relationships.
Not only do you lose the potential love of your. At a certain point in a relationship, romance seems to fade. You get comfortable. All Rights Reserved.
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