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204: Radical Alignment: Getting to Hell Yes with Alex & Bob

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Joining the Pivot Podcast today are two of my closest friends in NYC, Alex Jamieson and Bob Gower. I spend Friendsgiving with them almost every year, and Bob is actually featured in the Pilot section of Pivot.

Alex and Bob are one of those couples we all admire—they are warm, loving, respectful, and creative. Today we’re talking about their new book, called Radical Alignment: How to Have Game-Changing Conversations That Will Transform Your Business And Your Life. If you want to help them get a big boost of momentum, please consider pre-ordering today!

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Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/204

More About Alex Jamieson and Bob Gower

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Alexandra Jamieson is a success mentor, life, and health coach to creative, professional women who want it all. She is the best-selling author of Women, Food & Desire, co-creator and co-star of the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me, and highly-sought-after wellness expert.

Bob Gower helps organizations move faster, create better products, and become happier, more engaging places to work. He is an authority on agile software development, lean theory, and responsive organizational design. He is the author of Agile Business: A Leader’s Guide to Harnessing Complexity and speaks regularly on organizational development and leadership.

Topics Covered

  • Spoke together at Responsive 2018, Previous version called Getting to Hell Yes

  • Radical Alignment framework: Intentions, Concerns, Boundaries, Dreams

  • Intentions: Our personal why, our values, what is important to us

  • Concerns: What we fear might go wrong

  • Boundaries: Our non-negotiables; think of them as starter (or flexible) boundaries, can be hard to express. How do you want to feel? How do you know you need to take care of yourself? What do you need to feel that way? Can also be preferences. It’s a dance. 

  • Dreams: Our highest hopes and aspirations; if this were to turn out beautifully, what would be true? What are we creating? We are for each other. Describe it almost viscerally; what is the essence, the most simple version of what you’re looking for

  • Roles of listener and speaker: listener—listen with curiosity and suspend judgment; speaker—be courageous and thorough

  • If feeling triggered, or trying to fix something the other person said, don’t say anything. If curious and you want to hear more

  • Remember: you’re not making any decisions now. Like brainstorming, there are no bad ideas

  • Everything is a negotiation; we are both investing in this 100%

  • Process of writing a book together, how the framework evolved over time

Resources Mentioned

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