Good morning and
welcome to Morning Cereal.
Okay, good morning and welcome to Friday.
Congrats, you made it again.
It's the last Friday of August and today
is College Colors Day.
It's a chance to represent your alma
mater or just maybe enjoy
some school spirit flair.
Even if it's just where your cousin who's
like a brother's friend went.
And if you're watching on YouTube, I'm
rocking my NBA alma mater
t-shirt here, the Kansas
Jayhawks.
We got a football
game tonight, rock chalk.
Well, if this week wasn't quite what you
would hope for, our quote today may help.
Lea Michelle said, "We'll top it off with
love and tomorrow
we'll get up and we'll try
again."
So put yesterday behind you, whether it
was good or bad, and
look forward to what you
can accomplish today.
Well, today's news facts and birthdays
are for August 29th.
We're going to start back in 1949.
That's when on this date, the Soviet
Union, they secretly
performed their first successful
nuclear weapon test at a test site in
Northeast Kazakhstan.
Then moving up to 1991 on this date,
Nirvana's album, Nevermind,
well, it premiered on Boston
Radio and it ushered in a new era
defining the grunge
revolution with smells like teen
spirit.
And then lastly on this date in 2005, I
know you remember this
one, Hurricane Katrina
made its second and its third landfall as
a category three
hurricane, devastating much
of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana down
through the Florida panhandle,
unfortunately killing
more than 1800 people and causing over
$115 billion in damage.
Yikes.
Well, another tough transition there, but
let's just say, hey, happy birthday.
But today is your birthday.
You share a birthday with actress and
singer Leah Michelle.
She's gleeful to turn 39 today.
And the late, great Michael Jackson, he
was born on this date in 1958.
Michael would have only been 67 years old
if he were still alive.
And finally, the late John McCain, he was
born on this date in 1936.
Well, the number one song on this date
back in 2009 was, I Got
a Feeling by the Black
Eyed Peas.
This song was a major
earworm and rightfully so.
It was a global party anthem staying at
number one for 14 weeks.
Well, as you may know, the song was
written to be an
uplifting song like U2's Beautiful
Day.
But the song is also famous for the fact
that it repeats the lyrics.
Let's do it 24 times
in a row at one point.
Well, this will be the
easiest transition of the year.
I've got a feeling it's
time for the book review.
Let's do it.
When are COBIs the seven
habits of highly effective people?
They were unwrapping COBIs subchapter
synergy and communication.
And in this subchapter, COBIs explains
that synergy blossoms
through how we communicate
because shared meaning doesn't happen
until we speak with
others, not at others.
COBIs says, quote, synergy and
communication are two
sides of the same coin.
That effective dialogue,
synergy remains theoretical.
End quote.
Now, COBIs centers the idea that true
synergy involves active
listening, clarity of intent
and respectful dissent.
Now, COBIs also says, quote, when
communication enables mutual
understanding, shared solutions
emerge.
End quote.
Now, this isn't about compromise.
It's about creating
something better together.
And COBIs outlines barriers.
Here's one, miscommunication or making
assumptions of things, lack of clarity.
And COBIs would counsel against rushing
to speak before listening.
Instead, COBIs says, create a safe
container where
communication, where individuals feel
heard and safe to express creativity.
So COBIs emphasizes the structure here,
meetings that start with
everyone's perspective before
moving to solutions.
COBIs says, quote, a message is not
communicated until it's understood.
End quote.
And that subtle shift from speaking to
ensuring resonance changes the dynamic.
COBIs also reminds leaders that tone,
timing and humility matter.
Communication should invite
collaboration, not enforce it.
And COBIs also shares examples where
teams turn conflict
into synergy simply by just
reframing issues as
collective puzzles to solve.
All right.
Here's your Friday takeaway.
True synergy grows from communication
that listens, clarifies
and honors all voices.
And to understand and together create
outcomes none of you
could have done alone.
Well, the weekend is nearly here.
Good luck if your alma mater is playing
football this weekend or
tonight like my Jayhawks.
Oh, and also good news with football back
now, that's just
another good reason to order
wings and fried pickles.
Well, make today what you want it to be
and make it incredible.
Thanks for wrapping up the
week with morning cereal.
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