A favorite story of ours is about the original Olympic Games, in Ancient Greece.
If you won an event, unlike today, you didn’t get a fancy gold medal, or a sponsorship with Nike, or a multimillion-dollar TV deal with ESPN.
Nope. They gave you a laurel wreath. A small crown made out of commonly available bay leaves. Worth about thirty cents on the open market, and after about a week you had to throw it out as it started to wither.
I.e. a fleeting object, not worth very much in the grand scheme of things.
This was a metaphor for the fleeting nature of victory.
In other words, those red carpet moments, those moments on top of the podium, look great for the camera, in reality, they don’t last very long. You’re better off worrying about something more substantial.
As Philip Larkin said, “What will survive of us is love.” Exactly.
We're all living long days on Zoom, MS Teams, etc., everyone is talking about the grind, the struggle is real; we are missing the connection that we all took for granted. We have created a simple culture-building tool that will allow you to have more influence over the tone of your meetings, focus people on what you want them to work through and it is based on established social science., written extensively on by Bob Cialdini in his work in Pre-suasion, and BJ Fogg's behavior modification, Marshall Goldsmith, Benjamin Hardy, and others.
We have taken key messages that drive collaboration, innovation, and inspiration and designed them into virtual backgrounds. The idea is you can select and theme meetings, triggering discussion, and connection about the norms, outcomes, behaviors, and deliberately inform the conversation and focus for your virtual meetings.
