Human Behavior: Witnessing Salvation…

When you accelerated through the career ranks of your organization and you achieved all of the goals and challenges in front of you for a year or two, what typically happened?

You were promoted.

Now, when you were given this new title or rank this usually included new responsibilities, new relationships to be managed and in some cases a feeling of additional power within the organization.

Then what happened to your self-esteem?

This confidence and satisfaction in oneself is a valuable topic for dialogue in developing great leaders. Especially when together we witness a leader whose behavior is unjustified and abuses their given power.

Human behavior will not ever stop surprising us, even after we think that we have seen it all:

1. Just when we think we have witnessed all of the good in life, we see an act of kindness and good will that we never saw before. We stand there in amazement as we watch salvation in real-time.
2. Then there is the daily news. You read a story about an act of pure evil and you ask yourself, how could another human being actually do something like that?

Whether the truth is on the front page of the Washington Post or from a witness who tells the story from their first hand experience in the room, or on the front lines, how will you act? More of #1 or #2.

The self-choice of actions you take next and the demonstrated evidence of your own behavior is an indicator of your true character. Of who you really are as a human being, operating in your organization.

Over the course of your tenure with that logo on your business card or the patch on your shoulder, never forget your true character.

You have the opportunity to continuously perform and who your colleagues will follow, that your organization is proud of each day for all of your excellent actions.

“As you build your own “Self-Esteem” and confidence and satisfaction with oneself, remember #1.”

Your team or organization as a whole, will rise together to acknowledge your kindness, empathy and yet your faithful ability to accomplish so many important milestones.

Thank you for being #1. Onward!

Transparency of Actions: Building Organizational Trust…

Is paranoia and the secrecy of strategic actions by a senior management leader a major vulnerability in your organization?

The Operational Risks associated with your paranoid “Need-to-Know” culture, could lead to the failure of key management initiatives or even the latest offensive launched on your competition.

Whether you are a leader of the largest country in our world by area of land mass, or you are the Chief Executive Officer of a growing enterprise, your future success leading the organization truly lies in the hearts of people.

Have you recently launched a new policy or company strategy that has taken much of those on the front lines by surprise?

Are you invoking a new “Go-to-Market” strategy in the field without the majority of your Board of Directors to support your new ideas and actions?

The failures of People, Processes, Systems and the risks of certain External Events will eventually lead to your Operational demise. The destruction of a home for so many. It could take weeks, months or possibly years.

While your authoritative and brute force tactics from the Top begin to unfold, your employees and followers are losing faith in you. They are beginning their own plans to exit the organization and escape your toxic paranoid attitude.

Unfortunately, your own ego and the fog of your imagined legacy is ultimately what will lead to your organizations slow and painful failure.

"How might you change this and keep your upward trajectory in the marketplace and across the globe before it is too late?"

It begins with mending and growing relationships that you have ignored. Relationships that over the years have stood next to you and behind you waving your flag.

Time is running out. As a leader, the admission that you have taken the wrong course and made paranoid decisions without collaboration of other key leaders is a starting point.

You and your Board of Directors need to Understand, Decide and Act. Very soon.

How might a “Backwards-from-Perfect” approach in consultation and consensus with your strategic partners make a difference in the hours and days ahead?

The historic legacy you leave in Wikipedia and in all the hearts of the people in your particular tribe of followers, is now before you.

It is now time to become more transparent, generate a series of active “Trust Decisions” and to deliver the actions to save the heart and soul of all that they believe in…

Acceleration: Discovering Velocity...

 Acceleration is a factor of physics and the rate of change of velocity with respect to time. 

The act or process of moving faster has several factors in play for the vital safety and security of attaining the planned mission.

How might you apply the correct control of your velocity in the next few seconds in order to avoid a crash and your forward momentum?

Once you have accelerated to your initial destination, what shall you do to achieve a successful journey as you navigate the challenges ahead of you?

How will you turn and adjust your velocity just at the correct time, to avoid the obstacle just seconds ahead of your intended path?

What you will learn over your hours, days, weeks and years of experience, is that you will fall and you will crash.

The question then remains, what have you learned and how quickly will you recover?

Even after decades of accelerating and reaching the greatest milestones in your life, there is a reason why you are still alive.

You are continuously in pursuit of the correct velocity in order to learn, to compete and to truly complete your intended mission here:

• There are millions of words written in important books that are centuries old and yet you have not read all of them.
• There are thousands of wonderful mountain peaks around our globe and yet you have not ascended to the summit of all of them.
• There are hundreds of beautiful coral reefs below one of Earths oceans and yet you have not descended to the depth to see all of them.

You still have so much to accomplish in your particular process at the correct velocity, in order to achieve the safety and security of your mission:

MAP >> SKETCH >> DECIDE >> PROTOTYPE >> TEST

Each one of these methodical steps, in a continuous process of accelerating at the right moment in time, will see that you witness your intended destination.

Repeat this often and discover your own Velocity…Onward!