Authenticity: Getting Practical and Tactical with “3G”
Matt Elwell Matt Elwell

Authenticity: Getting Practical and Tactical with “3G”

How do high performers remind themselves to slow down and interrogate the things they think, say, and do to make sure they’re staying on track?

  • Watch who you are when you’re “improvising”

  • Pay attention to the 3Gs: Gods, Guts, and Guides

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changing the world with a team of full selves: the fourth quadrant
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changing the world with a team of full selves: the fourth quadrant

Borrowed from improvisation, Yes And is a foundational concept to the PLAY Polarities™️. Yes And encourages us to embrace and support the ideas of others. We use it as the umbrella for all meaningful group activity, which is why we call this Quadrant Y: Yes And.

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we > me: building authentic life and work relationships with the third quadrant
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we > me: building authentic life and work relationships with the third quadrant

Many individual contributors spend their careers in the first two quadrants, Paying Attention and Leaning Toward. They learn what to do, and they do it—clear and direct. In this post, we’ll encounter Quadrant A: Accept, Adapt, Affect. This is the fuzzy area where honest, authentic dialogue occurs. And it’s never just about us.

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the courage to act: pushing ideas into reality with the second quadrant
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the courage to act: pushing ideas into reality with the second quadrant

After figuring out what to do in Quadrant P, we take that understanding and let it inspire us to action with Quadrant L: Lean Toward. This is where most people spend most of their professional lives: generating work-product. Lean Toward is how we bring our Full Selves to that activity.

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