Quick Bite: 'Don't take it personally' and 3 more rules for leaders

In this Quick bite, we hear how a small book—The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz—shaped Webjet Group CEO Katrina Barry's leadership style.

This quick bite is from our previous episode 'Webjet Group wants your whole travel wallet'

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to a shears These podcast. Do you have
a favorite quote or piece of business advice that keeps
you going as a leader or that you really like. Yeah,
I think one of them that I've always have in
the back of my mind is like, don't take it personally.
And where that comes from is a book that a
mentor gave me really early on. Now I'm going to

(00:22):
get the author's name right, but I think it's Don
Miguel Ruiz or something. To look it up everybody, and
it's called the Four Agreements. It's like a bite sized,
tiny book and it's just like rules for how to live.
And the first one is don't take it personally. So
so often you everyone thinks that things are all about
them and it's not. The next one is don't make assumptions.

(00:43):
So so often people fall into the trap of making
assumptions or they assume negative or you know, just don't
do those assumptions. Be impeccable with your word. How good
is that for a rule in life? You know, so
often today in a world of fake news and mere
puffery and say whatever you can, there's no facts anymore.

(01:04):
Being impeccable with your word, I think is you know,
an old fashioned pillar that I love to subscribe to.
And the last one is just do your best. Sounds
like your mum's saying something to you, but I think
you know, all we can hope for is do your best.
So that's a book I give my team. So at
the moment, I know, always like to have and you know,
draw on those four agreements. If you will four agreement

(01:24):
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