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Khalil Smith

Khalil Smith

May 11, 2026

7:23
But they don't create the environment that, that makes that possible.
7:27
Well, and that's one of the things that I talked about in the session that I had earlier today.
7:31
So a, a book that I wrote called The Performance Culture gets at these four elements.
7:34
Awareness, so how do you kinda understand the problem you're trying to solve? Behavior, so specifically what is it you're trying to do? So when you tell people, "When you disagree, I want you to, to, to articulate it in some of these ways," people are now like, "Okay, this feels uncomfortable, but he gave me the latitude.
7:48
I know what I'm supposed to do." Not just, "Hey, be controversial." And people are like, "What does that mean? What does that look like? Am I gonna get fired? Am I being controversial in the right ways?" Community, so just as you're doing, you're building that across your entire organization.
8:02
And then the systems, and so if you tell people, "I want you to disagree with me," but then you only promote the people that agree with you-
8:13
Yeah.
8:13
And so that's where it needs to come through.

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