No Discord at Work – Lessons from Jerry
The show Seinfeld was known to be a reasonably harmonious set, a ‘lack of discord’. When Jerry Seinfeld was asked a few weeks ago why he thought that was the case by life-maximiser Tim Ferriss on his podcast , he gave an answer that was startling in its simplicity:
Tim: To what would you attribute that lack of discord?
Jerry: I don’t like discord.
You probably don’t like it either, right? But what do you actually do?
Jerry continued:
Jerry: I don’t like it, and I am fearless in rooting it out and solving it. And if anyone’s having a problem, I’m going to walk right up to them and go “Is there a problem? Let’s talk about this”. Because I cannot stand that kind of turmoil.
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