"You don't need to know that"

Are there people in your organization that you think don’t need to know some things that are viewed as “important” for other more worthy employees to know?

Little important information should be withheld from any employee.  You’d be surprised what employees lower on the totem pole can contribute when empowered with the right information – and asked to think.

Is EVERYONE pulling in the same direction?

The Inner Traveler

Explore how you are thinking about it all.  What thought patterns do you create?  How does that affect your expectations and outward communication?  You say you want X, but do you really?  What about you got you to right where you are?

To travel distances outside yourself, you must travel inside yourself.

Liquidity

li quid i ty/ lik’widati/

noun

The economic word for freedom.

How to create high impact change

Need to create some permanent change inside your company right now?  First, know clearly what you want to do and where you want to be.  Then bring it to your team with –

High impact – Visual, Verbal, Action.

High Frequency – Everyday, stay on it.

and Ongoing Support – help them understand, learn and adjust.  Give them what they need.

You are the leader.  You are responsible for making the change your organization needs.

Blind to your blindness

You can see problems.  But when you are part of the problem, you can’t see it.

You are the leader.  You are responsible for how it’s all coming out.  

Consider you are part of the problem – because you are.

Are you sure you want to commit to that?

Entrepreneurs are special people.  We see opportunity everywhere we look.  We see where we can fix something, improve something, revolutionize something, and we aren’t afraid of the challenge with our mile high levels of self confidence.

But we are mere mortals.  We must remember we can do anything, but we can’t do everything.   

Be a closer

Don’t start a project unless you are going to finish it.  Be a good closer and finish projects strong.

Remind them

People need training and lots of it.  But often we think that our people have already been trained on a thing so they don’t need it anymore.  People lose 1% a day, and after 3 months they are freestyling, running your business the way they see fit – and each does it differently.

People need to be reminded more than they need training.

You don't spit on the floor at the Ritz

People will raise themselves to the level of the environment they are in.

What does your workplace say to your team and customers?

Head first

If we don’t discipline our thinking, we can’t control the results we get.

Your life follows your head.