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Phone away in conversation

Put the phone out of sight when someone starts talking to you

Not face down on the desk, out of sight. Sinek groups it with saying good morning in the hallway as one of the small repeated signals that decide whether people at work feel seen, and passes on a line from his friend Bob Chapman, who heard it from his priest: consistency is more powerful than intensity. His comparison is a parent listening to a child describe their day, which nobody would do while checking a screen. It takes no time and no money. The difficulty is doing it every time rather than once.

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