{"id":154,"date":"2010-07-01T10:24:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2010-07-01T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:24:54","slug":"take-back-your-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/take-back-your-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Back Your Lunch!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Invite that person in Marketing to lunch? What are you talking about, Andy! I don’t even take a lunch!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve had that conversation with many executive coaching clients. As we talk about the importance of developing relationships (the essence of our keynote entitled “The Dirty Little Secret of Business”<\/a>), I often recommend using lunch as a time to connect with people they don’t necessarily see on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

You’d think I was asking them to climb Mt. Everest!<\/strong> “Who has time for lunch these days?”<\/p>\n

This morning I interviewed Tony Schwartz, author of The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working<\/a> for my project management podcast entitled The People and Projects Podcast<\/a>. I look foward to publishing the interview in a couple months.<\/p>\n

But in the meantime, Tony’s organization is sponsoring an initiative that I love<\/strong>! It’s called Take Back Your Lunch<\/a>! It’s a simple idea: you may think you don’t have time, but by doing so, you re-energize yourself to have a more productive afternoon.<\/p>\n

As Tony and I discussed in the interview, it’s not about how many hours our people work. It’s how productive they are in delivering sustainable results.<\/strong> There’s so much opportunity for leaders to model this ourselves, to re-energize ourselves and thereby show it’s important to our teams. Instead of counting hours, let’s count the number of lunches our teams take!<\/p>\n

Check the site out<\/a>! Here’s to an energized day for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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