Needing to Be Right, Staying Too Long, and Expecting the Organization to Love You Back: AmyJo Mattheis

<p>Founder &amp; CEO of Pavo Navigation Consulting</p> <p>Show notes: <a href="https://www.markgraban.com/mistake69">https://www.markgraban.com/mistake69</a></p> <p>My guest for Episode #69 is <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajexeccoach/">AmyJo Mattheis</a>, the founder and CEO of her firm <a href="http://pavonavigation.com/">Pavo Navigation Consulting</a>.</p> <p>She has worked in international development, government, higher education, and religion — a professor and a pastor. Works a lot with high-tech startups… she has managed teams, built roadmaps, facilitated groups, navigated boards, set vision, and led thousands of people to bring them into form.</p> <p>Questions and topics include:</p> <ul> <li>What were AmyJo's three favorite mistakes?<br> Needing to know the answer (or thinking I had to be right)<br> Staying too long in a job<br> Expecting the organization to “love you back” (even if that's a church)<br> </li> <li>How do you learn it’s a problem?</li> <li>Somatic indicators – signals?</li> <li>Is it fixable? Is it mine to fix? Advice: set a timeline to see if it can be better</li> <li>Knowledge vs. assumption</li> <li>Being right vs. testing hypotheses</li> <li>Coaches people all the time who beat themselves up over mistakes — accepted part of the culture</li> <li>Believing it was my responsibility to make everything right or successful</li> <li>Founders in Silicon Valley and Venture Capital firms… fail fast, fail early?&nbsp; Easier said than done</li> </ul> <blockquote>“I am exactly where I am meant to be, doing what I am supposed to do, at the exact time and place it is needed. All of where I have been now culminates into a potent product that brings results of increase for all and a new pathway to profit for you, your company, organization, or institution.”<br> </blockquote> --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app">https://anchor.fm/app</a> Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/suppo