The Pain Principle
While general professional development principles are important to learn and be reminded of, I think my niche is really surrounding one principle I have come to love teaching and helping people actualize in their own decision-making. The Pain Principle was born out of an observation that too many decision makers were making decisions without the benefit of actually feeling the pain that their subordinates were experiencing. These decisions lacked understanding and empathy and often had the opposite of their desired effect. I am now on a quest to help others understand and apply the pain principle in any faucet of their lives where they need to make decisions that impact other people.
The Panda Parable
In the genre of business book fables like Who Moved My Cheese, by Spencer Johnson and Our Iceburg is Melting, by John Kotter I decided to illustrate The Pain Principle by telling a panda bear fable to teach timeless principles about how to effectively make decisions. Why Don’t Pandas Eat Meat?
“Decision makers who feel their people’s pain make better decisions.”
— Jerrod Guddat
My Desire
I would love to get these ideas and concepts into the heads and hearts of decision makers the world over to help stop apathetic decision-making and help leaders and individual contributors make better decisions and improve their professional and personal relationships in the process.
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