I have found the longer that I or someone else needs to talk the less that has been actually and truly accomplished – and we know it. We need to be able to speak in clear and defined terms when we establish commitments and when we discuss plans and results. Telling a story in words and using text is much easier than show hard core facts and being ready to commit to being held accountable to these facts.

Too often we fall into “feeling really good about …” or “feeling confident about …” or “feeling like things are getting … “ with little to no factual information to back up our story of the past, the present or the future. And many times we are allowed to get away with this. Few people in our lives are going to call us on being nebulous, few are going to “call it tight” on us. We are at the top of the pyramid, we are the drivers, the owners, the CEOs, the Presidents. There are very few people, and probably none, who are going to call us out for a weak story and face the risk of being chastised, fired or assigned the task of making it better.