A co-worker stopped into my office this morning and said, "Thanks so much for making me sound so smart in the Mississippi Business Journal." When you're in the Communications Department, you're in every department - often very behind the scenes, of course. We were asked some tough questions about health care and how to improve patient safety and the expense of health care. And I had the opportunity to help the co-worker figure out what to say in response to the tough questions.
It made me feel good to make her look good. And one of the guiding rules of improv is to make others look good, according to Dear Annette. (I finally finished Improv Wisdom by Patricia Ryan Madson on the plane home from Nashville - improv must be big right now.)
Basic human instinct is to make yourself look good, but you're better off making others look good. And, in the process, you will look good too, of course. Dear Annette is talking about the stage, but as Madson's book has shown me, many of the same principles apply in life and in business.
Now that I've finally caught up a little from all of my travels, I will start writing in more detail about Improv Wisdom this week.
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