A Rare and Valuable Skill

In too many organizations the employees don’t trust the leaders and the relationship between the team and management is one of us vs them. 

Trust-based leadership is a rare and valuable skill.  It’s hard to measure, but in real life, it creates much value.

To develop trust you must first not violate it.  Hold the well-being of the entire team as a priority while accomplishing organizational goals.  Be open, friendly, fair, reliable, communicate, and have integrity.  When you make a mistake, admit it, apologize and fix it.  When you don’t know, don’t act like you do.  Ask for their input.

From the inner…the outer.

Don't make 100 decisions when one will do.

Are you busy fixing/covering for/shoring up your business because you haven’t/won’t make a higher-level decision? 

Giving up the old you, for the NEW you!

Do you have the guts to risk the life you are living for the one you are capable of?

The one you dream of?

Are you courageous enough to let go of your old identity – the one your ego is screaming to protect?

You can’t be the old version of yourself and the new version at the same time.

Choose.  

If the choice was easy at first, you probably aren’t moving forward.

What problem if solved, solves 1000 others?

If you have persistent problems, think about what you can do to stop the source of them.

Re-position.  Hire.  Fire and re-hire.  Rethink your own role.  Stop causing it yourself.

What problem, if solved, can solve 100 or 1000 problems in the future?

Not all effort is equal.

Most of what you do results in…well…not much.

A high percentage of great results comes from a small percentage of your activities.

Leverage your time.  Go for results.

Spend more time doing things that move the needle in your life.

Strengths become weaknesses

“Circumstances change, and the strengths that lead to your first successes become weaknesses.” -Tom Peters

When you started your strength carried you.  You may have been able to grow a bit with some significant weaknesses – by working longer.  But your weaknesses become a limitation to scaling your business unless you are smart enough to be self-aware and fill in for your weaknesses with people who have corresponding strengths.

Are YOUR weaknesses still your BUSINESSES weaknesses? 

Do less, lead more

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hoffman

You own a business and want to make $150 an hour – so why are you doing $20 an hour work with much of your time?

You must leverage capital and labor and software/internet to get there.  “Doing the work” will not get you what you want.

Build a team and lead.

Your customers are digitally connected

What they think of you, everyone is going to know about.

The world is watching.

Behavior comes before success

You have to behave like the best ____________ before you get the results a great ___________ would get and before anyone says you are a great ___________.  How would a great _____________ act?

How would a great leader act?

It’s not so much “fake it till you make it.”  

It’s “be it now”.

Who do you need to be today?

Self-employed or own a business?

Lawyers, doctors and accountants rent out their time.  They do not have a business that works without them.

Do you?