Name: Controlling Rumors and Gossip - Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Uploaded: 2018-04-11T01:10:57.000Z
Duration: 5 min 56 s
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How, do you control rumors and gossip within an organization

That's pretty easy you just you just talked

Gerund

About being you know getting out there with, the truth and your propaganda arm to outside your company it's, no different inside your company

Eat it's an interesting that when you work

We work with leaders sometimes you see people that i why i don't, want to share this with

My, people you know cuz, i don't know, what they might think like, there are they're thinking

Yeah, something that may be totally not true they're, not just sitting there not thinking anything because you're not sharing it with

Them they're coming up to their, own conclusions, which may be completely false or opposite but like

We say in the in the navy all the time you know perception is reality that becomes reality so you've got a

You got a you can defeat the gossip and rumors. By actually just sharing the truth be open, with. People and

And and and be in first out there with a, message so people get an understanding and even when horrible

Bad things go wrong extreme ownership right if if you take

Ownership for that and say hey listen this happened here's what we're doing to fix it here's what we're doing to turn things around

People people are not gonna lose respect. For you in the organization, they're actually gonna, gain respect for you as a result something

We talk, about all the time so don't be afraid to do that

Again, just get the message out there and and be transparent and talk to folks

If you, don't tell people what's going on they're, gonna make up their, own

ideas of what's going on and the thing that i have to i

Have to, we have to, we have to take this just a little bit further right just a little bit further because

We talked, about transparency right, and that war gets thrown. Around all the time and

of the idea that you're just gonna you that the idea that, you're just gonna tell everyone exactly, what's going on and

That sounds great and it's like, hey i'm a fully transparent leader and i'm gonna, tell you what's going on but there's times

Do that there's times where you have to maneuver and you have to be tactful and some of the things that you might tell someone

Actually is not the right thing to do now, and i i'm not saying

We're, gonna be dishonest with our people i'm not saying that

And i'm saying that transparency is a great thing but i mean just on a personal level

Not doing he's doing something horrible is the best way to go, about that to fully, true full transparency is hey life

Is that the best way to do it in front of out the entire in front of thing right is that

Is that it's full transparency right hey i'm fully transparent, okay everyone welcome to the meeting today

By the way i just wanted to point out that life to missus numbers again, and he's a loser?

That might, be what i'm thinking that's fully transparent hey?

Guys, just beat and and you love this too right just being transparent leif's an

Laysa, loser he missed his numbers again, and you know, what i'm actually thinking, about firing him just in case anyone was wondering

So that's that's, my getaway to close the business friday did i do a

Good, job right so so let's not get carried

Away, right you know, what is the smart, way this smart ways to maneuver the smart, way is to say, okay?

Lace not doing what, he what he, no, wants to what he should be doing if i go and accuse him of failing?

What's his reaction, gonna be how is it so?

What i do instead instead i go i want to take ownership of it and so instead i said hey lafe you know. Hey

He comes and come to come come i laughs i want to talk to you bout a couple things so he comes to my

Now it's hey, lafe, hey man i noticed that you you know

You, you missed your numbers and i'm thinking that maybe i'm not giving

You the kind of support that you need to get where you need to be is there anything else that you need

Again inside sure i'm thinking life, you pathetic loser you missed your numbers again

Right but i'm not gonna, do that so the full transparency thing i get it and?

The tertiary and the secondary and tertiary effects of the things that, we say especially as a leader you

What you say has a lot of impact as a leader and sometimes i see leaders they make a

Little off-the-cuff remark, about something you know. Oh that won't matter, oh?

Oh, okay, so it doesn't matter or so so this little thing you know

Hey, hey, boss we wanted to get this this task, done by this date is it still important

So it doesn't matter so what i was working on for last month and a half doesn't matter okay cool great

Use your, brain, yeah that's that's 100% correct i think you know

What i was trying to explain in the first situation is i mean i was having a conversation with a leader that

We work with, who was you know telling, me that there was a key leader in his team that didn't, want to share with

He didn't, want to share with the key leaders that they were they were haven't having, some issues and having

Some dire straits wonder you know. Getting to a point, where they're wondering hey, i don't know. If we're gonna make payroll

You know a few months from now if we don't turn?

These things around but i don't, want to share that with

Them because i don't want him to panic mmm and when i when i heard that i was like?

What kind of panic are they, gonna have, when they find out?

Yeah, they can't make payroll but, no one told him of that and they thought everything

Was great so the pen is gonna be a hundred times worse yeah then

And that's that's the kind of transparency i'm talking, about we're like listen you need to go

And have a direct conversation to say guys here's, where we're at

Yeah, and that should be something to help get them in year be like listen, we have got to we've got to hit

These numbers we've got to get things, going, again, we gotta turn performance around or this is where we're?

Gonna be next quarter if we don't do that and i think those?

That's the kind of thing i'm talking about where you're not keeping the secrets is it not helping you out because

By, the way everyone knows the numbers right so they know. They already probably know

You're, in dire straits and they're thinking, well i better find a

Backup job and they're gonna leave and now you're an even worse straight so yeah absolutely

You, don't need, to hide information from from the team